I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentleman whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.” — 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
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round… — 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
Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually… — 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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