Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it. — 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
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
