It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. — 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
“In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.'… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's… — 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
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants… — 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
If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following… — 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
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