George Eliot Quotes
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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.
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The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.
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Particular lies may speak a general truth.
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Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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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.
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But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
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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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It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
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It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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.
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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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The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
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I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
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There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
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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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Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger.
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In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
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There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.
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Teach love, for that is what you are.