George Eliot Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by George Eliot
George Eliot Famous Quotes & Sayings
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In no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.
We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence.
But at present this caution against a too hasty judgment interests me more in relation to Mr. Casaubon than to his young cousin. If
Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?
Rosamond being one of those women who live much in the idea that each man they meet would have preferred them if the preference had not been hopeless.
Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.
Still, I repeat, there was a general impression that Lydgate was something rather more uncommon than any general practitioner in Middlemarch. And
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.
My life is too short, and God's work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world.
He rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families ...
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
Notions and scruples were like spilt needles, making one afraid of treading, or sitting down, or even eating.
There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience.
Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
In this stupid world, most people never consider that a thing is good to be done unless it is done by their own set.
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.
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.
Even in 1831 Lowick was at peace, not more agitated by Reform than by the solemn tenor of the Sunday sermon. The
I should never like scolding any one else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband.
It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable
There is no sorrow I have thought about more than that - to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts. - WORDSWORTH.