George Eliot Quotes
-
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
-
You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.
-
Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
-
For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.
-
I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
-
... 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.
-
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
-
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
-
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
-
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.
-
The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
-
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
-
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.
-
It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
-
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.
-
Teach love, for that is what you are.
-
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
-
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
-
We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.
-
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
-
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.
-
The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
-
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.
-
"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.