I.B. George Quotes

A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.

A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman".

It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.

Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?

Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.

Nothing exists except through human consciousness

The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

People worship power in the form in which they are able to understand it.

It is only when you meet someoneof a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your ownbeliefs really are.

It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are.

Truth is a matter of PerspectiveThere will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn't exist.

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A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed.

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.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.

It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are.

Inequality was the price of civilization.

Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at once of filthy rags and the best damask...

....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.

Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.

Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

She was no longer wresting with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.

If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

I want to say right here that the easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.

There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

It has been my experience that, even when a man has a sense of humor, it only really carries him to the point where he will join in a laugh at the expense of the other fellow.

It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

I shall never forget you. I have never forgotten anyone whom I once knew. My life has never been crowded, and seems not likely to be so.

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.

For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.

The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed.

I tell you I can't be bothered with things like that. I've got a soul above buttons.

An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.

She handled it (her trade) with all the grace that belongs to mastery.

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write.

When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failure.

Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

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

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.