I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth. — 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
Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. — 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
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen… — 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
