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
How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those… — 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
He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning;… — 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
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another. — 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
Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's… — 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
A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to… — 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
