“But the first glad moment in our first love is a vision which returns to us to the last, and brings with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“After all has been said that can be said about the widening influence of ideas, it remains true that they would hardly… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There is a power in the direct glance of a sincere and loving human soul, which will do more to dissipate prejudice… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“For then, the very hardship, and the sorrow, and the blindness, and the sin I have beheld and been ready to weep… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feeling; but then, such feelings continually come across the ties… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be… — 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
