George Eliot Quotes
Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.
How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
In poor Rosamond’s mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
'Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.
In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it.
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.
The years seem to rush by now and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories
I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere.
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
