It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the… — 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
“The world outside the books was not a happy one, Maggie felt; it seemed to be a world where people behaved the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The group I am moving towards is at Caleb Garth's breakfast-table in the large parlor where the maps and desk were: father,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men...… — 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
“Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high… — 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
“He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“To judge from their writings, there are certain ladies who think that an amazing ignorance, both of science and of life, is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In books there were people who were always agreeable or tender, and delighted to do things that made one happy, and who… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“She seated herself on a dark ottoman with the brown books behind her, looking in her plain dress of some thin woollen-white… — 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
