I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate… — 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
"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is… — 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
I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me." "What is that?" said Will, rather jealous of the belief.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“He was unique to her among men because he’s impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women… — 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
“It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable - when the fatal iron gates are about to close… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“To have taken Maggie by the hand and said, “I will not believe unproved evil of you: my lips should not utter… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship, which a loving faith fills with happy assurance.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a… — 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
