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
It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner. — 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
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. — 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
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
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. — 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
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
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
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
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
When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage… — 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
...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
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
“In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.” — 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
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
Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it… — 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
We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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 could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner. — 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
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
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 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
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
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 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
