To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength… — 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
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
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
You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the… — 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
If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind… — 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
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
There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and… — 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
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They… — 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
