“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle — solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime. — 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
“When the commonplace "We must all die" transforms itself suddenly into the acute consciousness "I must die-- and soon," then death grapples… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the… — 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
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... Genius consisting neither in self-conceit nor in humilty, but in a power to making or do, not anything in general, but… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“She locked herself in her room. She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life, before she… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me." "What is that?" said Will, rather jealous of the belief.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin. — 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
