Top 25 Casaubon Quotes
#1. My dear Mrs Casaubon," said Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardour, "character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do."
"Then it may be rescued and healed," said Dorothea.
George Eliot
#2. The theologian Meric Casaubon argued - in his 1668 book, Of Credulity and Incredulity - that witches must exist because, after all, everyone believes in them. Anything that a large number of people believe must be true.
Carl Sagan
#3. The narrating voice that tells 'Middlemarch' is just as much a made-up character as Dorothea or Mr. Casaubon.
Philip Pullman
#4. Yes, said Mr. Casaubon, with that peculiar pitch of voice which makes the word half a negative.
George Eliot
#5. Humphrey finds everybody charming I never can get him to abuse Casaubon. He will even speak well of the bishop, though I tell him it is unnatural in a beneficed clergyman; what can one do with a husband who attends so little to the decencies? I hide it as well as I can by abusing everybody myself.
George Eliot
#6. But womanly, I hope, said Mrs. Garth, half suspecting that Mrs. Casaubon might not hold the true principle of subordination.
George Eliot
#7. She was not in the least teaching Mr Casaubon to ask if he were good enough for her, but merely asking herself anxiously how she could be good enough for Mr Casaubon.
George Eliot
#8. But at present this caution against a too hasty judgment interests me more in relation to Mr. Casaubon than to his young cousin. If
George Eliot
#9. When he turned his head quickly his hair seemed to shake out light, and some persons thought they saw decided genius in this coruscation. Mr. Casaubon, on the contrary, stood rayless.
George Eliot
#10. Instead of wondering at this result of misery in Mr. Casaubon, I think it quite ordinary. Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. And
George Eliot
#11. Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on fluttering in the swampy ground where it was hatched, thinking of its wings and never flying.
George Eliot
#12. Bravery is when you walk into a battle you are not sure of winning.
Jeffrey Fry
#13. Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.
Susan L. Taylor
#14. How miserable a solipsist is! It is rather senseless for him to even assert his belief in solipsism, for, on the one hand, if his belief is false it is like committing intellectual suicide, and, on the other hand, if his belief is true it is an act of intellectual insanity.
Kedar Joshi
#15. Sitting with him was like sitting by yourself; he didn't talk except when it suited him. You asked him a question in the morning and he might answer in the afternoon, or he might never.
Flannery O'Connor
#16. Most of the matchbooks and little boxes were made of paper, and even if the matches dried out, the containers were split, torn, and shriveled. The damp cardboard dripped with water, discolored and broken.
Penelope Douglas
#17. There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.
Bikram Choudhury
#18. My teaching is not for self-control, self-discipline. My teaching is for self-awareness, self-transformation.
Osho
#19. If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.
Seth Godin
#20. For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want.
Helena Bonham Carter
#22. Haven musta been a comfortable place, a place where men weren't fighting every day just to survive. Maybe too much comfort was the problem.
Patrick Ness
#23. There's such an array of brilliant roles for young women. You read all these amazing young women going through different stages in their life - different stages, different fascinations, different textualities, different friendships.
Juno Temple
#25. The Forest Service is truly an extraordinary institution. A lot of people, seeing that word forest in the title, assume it has something to do with looking after trees. In fact, no - though that was the original plan.
Bill Bryson
