“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them… — 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
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; 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
Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. — 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
