Inspiring Quotes by George Eliot - Page 2

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"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence"

"For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love"

"The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities"

"Our words have wings, but fly not where we would"

"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them"

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories"

"Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking"

"It is never too late to be what you might have been"

"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves"

"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"

"The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world"

"The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life"

"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"

"There are many victories worse than a defeat"

"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another"

"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from"

"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference"

"No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters"

"That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise"

"Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive"

"Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?"

"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations"

"In every parting there is an image of death"

"In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness"

"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"

"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us"

"Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries"

"Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest"

"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty"

"I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth"

"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult"

"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure"

"Excessive literary production is a social offense"

"Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world"

"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections"

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns"

"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet"

"A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other"

"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections"

"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best"

"Breed is stronger than pasture"

"Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course"

"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope"

"But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with"

"Adventure is not outside man; it is within"

"Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life"

"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms"

"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love"

"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment"

"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry"

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