George Eliot Quotes
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.
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Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
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Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
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There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.
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Correct English is the slang of prigs.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.
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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.
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How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty - it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Steady work turns genius to a loom.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
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"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.
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There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
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Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.
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Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.
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There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.