Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing… — 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
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work… The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit. — 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
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love… — 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
