“That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life ... can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Having made this rather lofty comparison I am less uneasy in calling attention to the existence of low people by whose interference,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Tulliver had lived thirteen years with her husband, yet she retained in all the freshness of her early married life a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning, sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Stupefaction is not resignation; and it is stupefaction to remain in ignorance,–to shut up all the avenues by which the life of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“My life is too short, and God’s work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle — solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“They had gone forth together into their life of sorrow, and they would never more see the sunshine undimmed by remembered cares.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” — George Eliot Copy Share
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt… — George Eliot Copy Share
