George Eliot Quotes
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.
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A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
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Where you have friends you should not go to inns.
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It was a still afternoon - the golden light was lingering languidly among the upper boughs, only glancing down here and there on the purple pathway and its edge of faintly sprinkled moss: an afternoon in which destiny disguises her cold awful face behind a hazy radiant veil, encloses us in warm downy wings, and poisons us with violet-scented breath.
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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
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Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babies; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God Almighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.
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Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
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If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.
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Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
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If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.
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But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.
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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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... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.
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Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.