Eliot

Famous quotes containing the word eliot:

“Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving edge and essence to things. To see shapes clearly, one outlines them—whether on paper or in the mind. Therefore, Michelangelo, a profoundly cultivated man, called drawing the basis of all knowledge whatsoever.”
—Alexander Eliot (b. 1919)

“That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure o’ one fool as ‘ull tell him he’s wise.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“... there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequence of his passions.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)