George Eliot Quotes
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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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Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
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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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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.
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There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.
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I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
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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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We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.
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I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
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It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
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You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.
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I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
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Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
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Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
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I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
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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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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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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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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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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.