I.B. George Quotes

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.

There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

Love supreme defies all sophistry.

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

I like to try and mix diction and experiences.

Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.