George Eliot Quotes
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Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.
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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 of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.
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Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.
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How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.
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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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That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.
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Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.
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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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It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
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A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
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Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
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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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Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
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The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
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The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
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If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.
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I shall do everything it becomes me to do.