George Eliot Quotes
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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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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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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Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
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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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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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I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.
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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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I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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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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Who can proveWit to be witty when with deeper groundDulness intuitive declares wit dull?
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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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If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
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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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I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.
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Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.
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Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.
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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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Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
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It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.