Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. George Eliot More Quotes by George Eliot More Quotes From George Eliot There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room. George Eliot wrathanswersrooms Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation. George Eliot butterflyexpectationsmemories It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in. George Eliot distrustdifficulttrying Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you. George Eliot busybodies That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing. George Eliot punishmentyoke Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. George Eliot hoursignoranceliterature We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement. George Eliot achievementselflooks One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves. George Eliot littleslifefacts All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet. George Eliot outletspassion But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. George Eliot obscuritynumberslife Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. George Eliot disappointmentwisdommemorable People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors. George Eliot braverymightpeople Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. George Eliot influencechangelife Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. George Eliot actingplayideas Rome - 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 Eliot citiespastmoving With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame. George Eliot timememoriespast We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born. George Eliot bornexpectationsremember The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious. George Eliot negativityblowgiving Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it. George Eliot autumnnaturefall It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience George Eliot sadnesspainfeelings
