There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses—and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not… — 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