I.B. George Quotes

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.

Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

The bow always strung ... will not do.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.

... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves