George Eliot, Middlemarch Quotes
One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.
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.
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.
Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.
If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.
It is just that I don’t know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs.
