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If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial (George Eliot Quotes)
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book (George Eliot Quotes)
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room (George Eliot Quotes)
Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner (George Eliot Quotes)
Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all (George Eliot Quotes)
... when one’s outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing (George Eliot Quotes)
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny (George Eliot Quotes)
... one’s own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can’t help groaning under the weight now and then (George Eliot Quotes)
The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf (George Eliot Quotes)
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least (George Eliot Quotes)
Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough (George Eliot Quotes)
... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books (George Eliot Quotes)
I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves (George Eliot Quotes)
... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired (George Eliot Quotes)
The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest (George Eliot Quotes)
There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape (George Eliot Quotes)
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy (George Eliot Quotes)
What people do who go into politics I can’t think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres (George Eliot Quotes)
I don’t feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don’t know (George Eliot Quotes)
... we all know the wag’s definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance (George Eliot Quotes)
... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong (George Eliot Quotes)
Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery (George Eliot Quotes)
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth (George Eliot Quotes)
I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it (George Eliot Quotes)
How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near? (George Eliot Quotes)
It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don’t give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade (George Eliot Quotes)
... we are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom (George Eliot Quotes)
A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other (George Eliot Quotes)
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact (George Eliot Quotes)
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course (George Eliot Quotes)