I.B. George Quotes

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

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 of money.

What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.

But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?

Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

Joy is the best of wine.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.

Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

Things are achieved when they are well begun.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.

There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.