Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“sacred is the task of the artist when he undertakes to paint the life of the People. Falsification here is far more… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and… — 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
“For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life… — 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
“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
“Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life— the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find… — 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 great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed… — 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
It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always… — 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
The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Because, dear, trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“She locked herself in her room. She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life, before she… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future. — 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
