George Eliot Quotes
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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... 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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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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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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Hear Everything and judge for yourself.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.
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Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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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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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness-calling their denial knowledge.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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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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Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.
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'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
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There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.
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Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.
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The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
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How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.
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Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.