It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet… — 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
Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat. — 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
