George Eliot Quotes
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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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'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.
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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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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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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.
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How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.
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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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A good solid bit of work lasts.
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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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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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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.
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Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.
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It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
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The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.
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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's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.
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Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.