I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten… — 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
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a… — 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
To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would… — 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
