George Eliot Quotes
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Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
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It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.
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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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It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.
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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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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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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.
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Joy is the best of wine.
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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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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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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
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Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
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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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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 have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.
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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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Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
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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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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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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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The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.
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'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.