George Eliot Quotes
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The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.
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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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You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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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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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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There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.
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I shall do everything it becomes me to do.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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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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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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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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The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.
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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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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.
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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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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.
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We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.