“Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The most obstinate beliefs that mortals entertain about themselves are such as they have no evidence for beyond a constant, spontaneous pulsing… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It was too intolerable that Dorothea should be worshiping this husband: such weakness in a woman is pleasant to no man but… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify… — 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
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