It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — 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
One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship… — 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
