Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and… — 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
Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice,… — 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
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
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without… — 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
But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows,… — 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
