George Eliot Quotes
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Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.
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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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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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Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.
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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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Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.
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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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The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
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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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While the arm is strong to strike and heave, Let soul and arm give shape that will abide...
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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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When you see fair hair Be pitiful.
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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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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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You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
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Love supreme defies all sophistry.
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Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.
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There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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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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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
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Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.