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Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster (George Eliot Quotes)
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas (George Eliot Quotes)
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins (George Eliot Quotes)
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking (George Eliot Quotes)
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness (George Eliot Quotes)
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us (George Eliot Quotes)
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal (George Eliot Quotes)
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees (George Eliot Quotes)
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder (George Eliot Quotes)
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from (George Eliot Quotes)
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters (George Eliot Quotes)
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking (George Eliot Quotes)
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things (George Eliot Quotes)
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? (George Eliot Quotes)
That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise (George Eliot Quotes)
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance (George Eliot Quotes)
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief (George Eliot Quotes)
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down (George Eliot Quotes)
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury (George Eliot Quotes)
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms (George Eliot Quotes)
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return (George Eliot Quotes)
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been (George Eliot Quotes)
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion (George Eliot Quotes)
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self (George Eliot Quotes)
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night (George Eliot Quotes)
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl (George Eliot Quotes)
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts (George Eliot Quotes)
Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity (George Eliot Quotes)
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity (George Eliot Quotes)
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music (George Eliot Quotes)