George Eliot Quotes
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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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It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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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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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
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It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.
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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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A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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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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If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.
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For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
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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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If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
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It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.
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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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It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
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The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
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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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We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.
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'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.