George Eliot Quotes
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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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The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
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Trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.
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One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
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If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.
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Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
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I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
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Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.
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Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
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Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
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Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.
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It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
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Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
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Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
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We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.