George Eliot Quotes
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.
Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
