George Eliot Quotes
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Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.
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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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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Worldly faces, never look so worldly as at a funeral.
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Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.
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Hear Everything and judge for yourself.
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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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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
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We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.
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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.
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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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There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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What is better than to love and live with the loved? – But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.
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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.