It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves — George Eliot Copy Share Image
So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.'… — 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
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you… — 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
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
Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.” — 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
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
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin… — 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
Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is… — 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
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
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
I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces… — 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
