George Eliot Quotes
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief — a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.
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There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty - it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.
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It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.
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Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
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It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.
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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
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What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
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Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?
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There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
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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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I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.