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
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out… — 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
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one… — 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
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
“Love is natural; but surely pity and faithfulness and memory are natural too. And they would live in me still, and punish… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
