George Eliot Quotes
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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
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Particular lies may speak a general truth.
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"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.
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The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.
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Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.
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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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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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 will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
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He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.
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When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
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There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
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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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Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
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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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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.