The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of… — 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. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship, which a loving faith fills with happy assurance.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good. — 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
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for… — 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
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them. — 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
