Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning, sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly… — 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
“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Stupefaction is not resignation; and it is stupefaction to remain in ignorance,–to shut up all the avenues by which the life of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances,… — GEORGE ELIOT Copy Share Image
Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“She could make dream-worlds of her own – but no dream-world would satisfy her now. She wanted some explanation of this hard,… — 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
