George Eliot Quotes

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

Don't give pain to others.

"Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?" Which was a ten on the 'imbecilic question' scale of one to ten. "Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?" "Any nausea? Headache?" "Yep. And it's standing here talking to me."

Why are you making a joke out of this?" she asks. "Because it's stupid, Nik. There's not even room in my day to think about someone else.

I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.

You can't just talk politics all the time - it's boring.

Never ask a bore a question.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

A damned bore

The way to be a bore is to say everything.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

Be kind to dumb people.

Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

Compassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort.

Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.