George Eliot Quotes
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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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Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.
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The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.
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Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
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The Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
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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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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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We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.
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It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
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Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
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... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, – it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.
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Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
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If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.
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When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .
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Hear Everything and judge for yourself.
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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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Trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.