George Eliot Quotes
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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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There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
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... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.
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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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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
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"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
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It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.
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It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.
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The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.
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My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.
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To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.
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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
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Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.