... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentleman whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself… It's like when a man's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other… — 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
O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be… — 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
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and… — 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
