“It is an old story, that men sell themselves to the tempter, and sign a bond with their blood, because it is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually… — 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
