George Eliot Quotes
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Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.
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Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.
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All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.
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There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
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Love supreme defies all sophistry.
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
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If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.
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Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
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... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
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People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
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Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
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Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope.
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Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
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Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.
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In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.
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How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.
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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
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While the arm is strong to strike and heave, Let soul and arm give shape that will abide...
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All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.