George Eliot
77 quotations
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.