George Eliot Quotes
-
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love...
-
The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.
-
when a man had deserved his good luck, it was the part of his neighbours to wish him joy.
-
Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it really belongs. It is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbour is good for nothing, than to enter into all the circumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion.
-
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.
-
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
-
This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.
-
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace.
-
To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.
-
'An accomplished woman almost always knows more than we men, though her knowledge is of a different sort. I am sure you could teach me a thousand things-as an exquisite bird could teach a bear if there were any common language between them. Happily, there is a common language between women and men, and so the bears can get taught.'
-
Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
-
It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don't carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow-trade; you must know where to find yourself.
-
People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
-
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
-
Tito was experiencing that inexorable law of human souls, that we prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by the reiterated choice of good or evil that gradually determines character.
-
Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.
-
One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.
-
Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
-
Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.
-
People who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.
-
My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.
-
It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.
-
the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .
-
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.