George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.
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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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There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.
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Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.
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It is doubtful whether our soldiers would be maintained if there were not pacific people at home who like to fancy themselves soldiers. War, like other dramatic spectacles, might possibly cease for want of a 'public.'
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The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
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Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.
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There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.
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no sort of duplicity can long flourish without the help of vocal falsehoods
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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
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I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
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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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When you see fair hair Be pitiful.
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We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
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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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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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Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
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No eye saw him, while with loving pride Each voice with each in praise of Jubal vied. Must he in conscious trance, dumb, helpless lie While all that ardent kindred passed him by? His flesh cried out to live with living men, And join that soul which to the inward ken Of all the hymning train was present there.