George Eliot Quotes
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Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.
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Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me.
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The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness-calling their denial knowledge.
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So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.
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"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
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Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.
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It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
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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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If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.
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You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.
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We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.
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A serious ape whom none take seriously,Obliged in this fool's world to earn his nutsBy hard buffoonery.
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Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
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How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
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Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly.
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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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Autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.
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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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You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.