The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest… — 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
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have… — 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
