George Eliot Quotes
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What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
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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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Particular lies may speak a general truth.
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The Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
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When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
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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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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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You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
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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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It is easier to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.
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Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.
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It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
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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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Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
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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.
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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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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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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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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
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It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.
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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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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.