It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come. — 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
