George Eliot Quotes
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The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
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Correct English is the slang of prigs.
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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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And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch
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Worldly faces, never look so worldly as at a funeral.
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One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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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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How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
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Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.
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How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
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The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.
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Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.
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There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .
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But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.
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We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
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Men and women are but children of a larger growth.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.
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The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.