“She looked at Will with a direct glance, full of delighted confidence. "You approve of my going away for years, then, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“You will hardly demand that his confidence should have a basis in external facts; such confidence, we know, is something less coarse… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The most obstinate beliefs that mortals entertain about themselves are such as they have no evidence for beyond a constant, spontaneous pulsing… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he… — 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
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 Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“[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 Image
“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 Image
“... 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 Image
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 Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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