Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty. — 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 Image
Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty; it is apt either to feign amiability, or not feigning… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Yes! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I am not at all sure that the majority of the human race have not been ugly, and even among those "lords… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Tulliver was what is called a good-tempered person,–never cried, when she was a baby, on any slighter ground than hunger and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine… — 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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