Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
GEORGE ELIOTImpatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOTWill not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
GEORGE ELIOTOnly in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
GEORGE ELIOTI think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
GEORGE ELIOTI like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOTThe troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOTAnd, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOTIn bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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 ELIOTRome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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 ELIOTWhat makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
GEORGE ELIOTBut what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
GEORGE ELIOT