Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I should never like scolding any one else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner. — 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
“Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love, have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile, in which the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Since you think it my duty, Mr. Farebrother, I will tell you that I have too strong a feeling for Fred to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacing are swung--are scarcely perceptible; momentary touches of… — 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
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love?… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.… — 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
