George Eliot Quotes
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
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It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.
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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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Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.
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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.
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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
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Teach love, for that is what you are.
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It is easier to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
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Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.
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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.
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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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We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.
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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.
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Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.