The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
GEORGE ELIOTThe best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
GEORGE ELIOTI like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
GEORGE ELIOTLove 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.
GEORGE ELIOTThe 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 ELIOTI flutter all ways, and fly in none.
GEORGE ELIOTIt will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOTThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
GEORGE ELIOTConscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
GEORGE ELIOTThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOTI think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
GEORGE ELIOTI carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
GEORGE ELIOTExamining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
GEORGE ELIOTIf you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
GEORGE ELIOT