Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself... — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring… — 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