Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner. — 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
I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing… — 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
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
Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babies; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what… — 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
It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us;… — 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
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
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
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. — 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
I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good. — 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
Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To… — 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
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