George Eliot Quotes
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure.
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Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
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. . . 'there's allays two 'pinions; there's the 'pinion a man has of himsen, and there's the 'pinion other folks have on him. There'd be two 'pinions about a cracked bell, if the bell could hear itself.'
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I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.
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You told me the truth when you said to me once, 'There's a sort of wrong that can never be made up for'.
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Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.
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Creeds of terror.
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As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
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It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.
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A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.
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The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.
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Our life is determined for us - and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing and only think of bearing what is laid upon us and doing what is given us to do.
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The mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.
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In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.
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In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.
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Inclination snatches argumentsTo make indulgence seem judicious choice.
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The natur o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change. The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot'.
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Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.
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‘I suppose a woman is never in love with any one she has always known- ever since she can remember; as a man often is. It is always some new fellow who strikes a girl.’
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I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out o' my mouth for things, when I know I should have a heavy conscience after 'em. I've seen pretty clear, ever since I could cast up a sum, as you can never do what's wrong without breeding sin and trouble more than you can ever see. It's like a bit o' bad workmanship--you never see th' end o' the mischief it'll do. And it's a poor look-out to come into the world to make your fellow creatures worse off instead o' better.
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A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.