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I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them (George Eliot Quotes)
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors (George Eliot Quotes)
There’s no disappointment in memory, and one’s exaggerations are always on the good side (George Eliot Quotes)
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 (George Eliot Quotes)
There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet (George Eliot Quotes)
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud (George Eliot Quotes)
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 (George Eliot Quotes)
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable (George Eliot Quotes)
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism (George Eliot Quotes)
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy (George Eliot Quotes)
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 (George Eliot Quotes)
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths? (George Eliot Quotes)
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being (George Eliot Quotes)
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 (George Eliot Quotes)
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite (George Eliot Quotes)
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it? (George Eliot Quotes)
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness (George Eliot Quotes)
Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us (George Eliot Quotes)
There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle (George Eliot Quotes)
Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it (George Eliot Quotes)
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 (George Eliot Quotes)
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling (George Eliot Quotes)
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 (George Eliot Quotes)
The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People’s lives and fortunes depend on them (George Eliot Quotes)
Sympathetic people often don’t communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths (George Eliot Quotes)
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself (George Eliot Quotes)
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence (George Eliot Quotes)
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place (George Eliot Quotes)
He was at a starting point which makes many a man’s career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose (George Eliot Quotes)
For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful (George Eliot Quotes)