The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea. — 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
“a terrible scorching light showed him the hidden letters that changed the meaning of the past.” — 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
“Persecution and revenge, like courtship and toadyism, will not prosper without a considerable expenditure of time and ingenuity,” — 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
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“it seemed to him as if he were beholding in a magic panorama a future where he himself was sliding into that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Fielding lived when the days were longer (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull… — 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
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“When the commonplace "We must all die" transforms itself suddenly into the acute consciousness "I must die-- and soon," then death grapples… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no time in a summer's day more cheering, than when the warmth of the sun is just beginning to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good… — 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 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
“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
“Romanticism, which has helped to fill some dull blanks with love and knowledge, had not yet penetrated the times with its leaven… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The terror of being judged sharpens the memory: it sends an inevitable glare over that long-unvisited past which has been habitually recalled… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything… — 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
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the… — 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
“There is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find… — 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
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
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
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mary was fond of her own thoughts, and could amuse herself well sitting in twilight with her hands in her lap; for,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker, if she had been born in time to save him from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped… — 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
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
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share
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
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
“[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
“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
“... 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
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
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share
“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
“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
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” — George Eliot Copy Share
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt… — George Eliot Copy Share
