George Eliot Quotes
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The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.
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As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.
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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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There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
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Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!
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A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
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I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
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I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.
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I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
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Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.
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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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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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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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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.
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Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
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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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What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.