George Eliot Quotes
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Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
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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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You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.
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It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
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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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One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
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A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.
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Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.
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Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.
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I shall do everything it becomes me to do.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.
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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.
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It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
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A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
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I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.
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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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The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
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The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.
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The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.