George Eliot Quotes
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The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
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Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?
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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 beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
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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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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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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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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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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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I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.
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A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
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That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
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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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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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I shall do everything it becomes me to do.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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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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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It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.
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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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Hear Everything and judge for yourself.
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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 had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.