No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“...it is art's duty to make us aware of realities which are not our own.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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
“sacred is the task of the artist when he undertakes to paint the life of the People. Falsification here is far more… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Romanticism, which has helped to fill some dull blanks with love and knowledge, had not yet penetrated the times with its leaven… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is our habit to say that while the lower nature can never understand the higher, the higher nature commands a complete… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies… Art is the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our… — 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
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I should like to make life beautiful--I mean everybody's life. And then all this immense expense of art, that seems somehow 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
