A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and… — 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
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