To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness... — George Eliot Copy Share Image
That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“He was unique to her among men because he’s impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings. — 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 Image
A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the… — 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