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George Eliot
Truth has rough...
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
Source: Graf Dornberg, in Armgart,...
Ignorance. . ....
Ignorance. . . is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with...
All meanings, we...
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
Source: Daniel Deronda,...
Boots and shoes...
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look...
Abroad, that large...
Abroad, that large home of ruined reputations.
Source: Felix Holt, Epilogue...
Delicious autumn! My...
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the...
A woman's hopes...
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
Source: 'Felix...
Gossip is a...
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the...
Plainness has its...
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.
Source: In...
There is hardly...
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs,...
Education was almost...
Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days.
Ignorance gives one...
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
Source: Daniel Deronda,...
Perhaps his might...
Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate...
There are many...
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
There are glances...
There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.
Source: Felix...
Friendships begin with...
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
Source: In...
Of a truth,...
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may...
You have such...
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem...
There is only...
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one...
Hatred is like...
Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.
Source: In Webster's...