George Eliot Quotes
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When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.
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What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
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... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.
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There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.
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I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
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What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.
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Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.
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Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
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I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.
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A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?
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Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
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There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!