George Eliot Quotes
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The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.
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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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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .
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It is easier to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.
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Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger.
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But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
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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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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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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 what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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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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Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
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A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
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Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.
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She hates everything that is not what she longs for.
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There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.
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The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
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'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.