It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive — when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.


The Mill on the Floss (1860)

George Eliot Quotes

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive — when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves...

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive — when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves...

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive — when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves...

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive — when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves...