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George Eliot
Oh may I...
Oh may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their...
Might, could, would...
Might, could, would -- they are contemptible auxiliaries.
Source: Mary Garth, in...
The sons of...
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice,...
Life is too...
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly...
I've never any...
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with...
There are men...
There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.
Source: Romola,...
Solomon's Proverbs, I...
Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness...
It is, I...
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a...
The reward of...
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
Source: Moredecai, in...
Renunciation remains sorrow,...
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Source: The Mill on...
Anger and jealousy...
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
This is a...
This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.
Source: Mr. Tulliver,...
It's them as...
It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world.
Source: Mrs. Poyser,...
Men's men: gentle...
Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
Source: Mrs. Girdle, in...
Jealousy is never...
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the...
Our instructed vagrancy,...
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is...
Animals are such...
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Nothing is so...
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Source: Silas Marner, 1861
-- George...
Necessity does the...
Necessity does the work of courage.
Source: Romola, 1863
-- George Eliot, (Nov...
More helpful than...
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.