George Eliot Quotes
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.
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It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
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the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .
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No farther will I travel: once again My brethren I will see, and that fair plain Where I and song were born. There fresh-voiced youth Will pour my strains with all the early truth Which now abides not in my voice and hands, But only in the soul, the will that stands Helpless to move. My tribe remembering Will cry, ''Tis he!' and run to greet me, welcoming.
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With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
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It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
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But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.
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Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
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I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.
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Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.
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Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
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Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
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And we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.
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The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
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Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.
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If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
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I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.