George Eliot Quotes
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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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... 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.
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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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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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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'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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For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
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A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
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If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
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It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
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The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.
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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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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 best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
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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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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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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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I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.