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
“We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“goodness tries to get the upper hand in us whenever it seems to have the slightest chance—on Sunday mornings, perhaps, when we… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I will wait till after Christmas.” What should we all do without the calendar, when we want to put off a disagreeable… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love, have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile, in which the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A bride and bridegroom, surrounded by all the appliances of wealth, hurried through the day by the whirl of society, filling their… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Bulstrode, after a moment’s hesitation, took his hat from the floor and slowly rose,” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Men, like planets, have both a visible and an invisible history. The astronomer threads the darkness with strict deduction, accounting so for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one… — GEORGE ELIOT Copy Share Image
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present. — 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
