George Eliot Quotes
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I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
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History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
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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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May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.
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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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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?
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Her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world.
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Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!
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There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.
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That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger - not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.
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It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.
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There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.
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It seems to me now, if I was to find Father at home to-night, I should behave different; but there's no knowing - perhaps nothing 'ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late.
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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
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If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.
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The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.
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What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.
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Who can proveWit to be witty when with deeper groundDulness intuitive declares wit dull?