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
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand. — 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
There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which… — 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
Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so… — 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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