George Eliot Quotes
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It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
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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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People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
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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.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.
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It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.
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High achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes.
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The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.
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I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
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Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.
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Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
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I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
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Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
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Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
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We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.
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All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.
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I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.
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Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
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One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.
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No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.
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A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.