George Eliot Quotes

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

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Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

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If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us.

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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.

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Its never too late to be who you might have been

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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

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. . . he was gradually discovering the delight there is in frank kindness and companionship between a man and a woman who have no passion to hide or confess.

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. . . her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world.

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I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it . . .

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

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. . . it was the last weakness he meant to indulge in and a man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

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Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.

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. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .

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It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted.

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. 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 and to engage in conscious mischief a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

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How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice . . .

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When Squire Cass's standing dishes diminished in plenty and freshness, his guests had nothing to do but to walk a little higher up the village to Mr. Osgood's, at the Orchards, and they found hams and chines uncut, pork-pies with the scent of the fire in them, spun butter in all its freshness--everything, in fact, that appetites at leisure could desire, in perhaps greater perfection, though not in greater abundance, than at Squire Cass's.

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. . . people who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.

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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

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

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If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix, else they inevitably fall asunder when the heat dies out.

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Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other

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Abroad, that large home of ruined reputations.

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