It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love?… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us… — 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
