Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what… — 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
News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral… — 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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