George Eliot Quotes About Wit

• The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

  George Eliot

  Cute, Idiot, Wit

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.206, Penguin

• These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.

  George Eliot

  Stupid, Compassion, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

• Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

  George Eliot

  Form, Limbs, Force

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.175

• Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

  George Eliot

  Witty, Dull, Deeper

  George Eliot “Poems”, Jazzybee Verlag

• The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

  George Eliot

  Stranger, Wit

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.313

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