George Eliot Quotes
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We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.
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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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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 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.
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If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
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Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.
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No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
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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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I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.
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Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.
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But a morbid consciousness that others did not give him the place which he had not demonstrably merited-a perpetual suspicious conjecture that the views entertained of him were not to his advantage- a melancholy absence of passion in his efforts at achievement, and a passionate resistance to the confession that he had achieved nothing.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.
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The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
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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.
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It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.
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Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
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Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me.
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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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That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.
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no sort of duplicity can long flourish without the help of vocal falsehoods
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In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
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You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
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A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.