The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it. — 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
