George Eliot Quotes
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Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.
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A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
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Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
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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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... 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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It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.
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It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
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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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There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.
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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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I shall do everything it becomes me to do.
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Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
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He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.
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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
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in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
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A good solid bit of work lasts.
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But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
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We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.
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Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
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The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.