Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good. — 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
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
Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive… — 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
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as… — 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
