I.B. George Quotes

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

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 of Latin to make it go down.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

Go forward with joyful confidence.

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

Teach love, for that is what you are.

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

A good solid bit of work lasts.

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.

Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.

Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.