When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence 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
The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was… — 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
It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes… — 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
Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man… — 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
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
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
Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion 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
