Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances,… — GEORGE ELIOT Copy Share Image
Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue. — 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
What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The… — 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
