George Eliot Quotes
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... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.
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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 first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.
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Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
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To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.
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It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.
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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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As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.
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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.
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I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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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It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
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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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Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
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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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It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.
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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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Particular lies may speak a general truth.
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If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.