There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration. George Eliot More Quotes by George Eliot More Quotes From George Eliot There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string. George Eliot strings chance luck I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft. George Eliot mathematics becoming brain I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things. George Eliot dust mirrors mind As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them. George Eliot self doe memories The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'. George Eliot ems tails men Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on. George Eliot quality safe running I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot. George Eliot eliot names wish It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow. George Eliot sorrow self past Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it. George Eliot offensive habit way I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid. George Eliot debt dinner principles I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality. George Eliot writing book art There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger. George Eliot hunger able reading I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone. George Eliot done reading mind Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects. George Eliot obligation selfish science Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others. George Eliot mist walks common Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love. George Eliot genius mistake men People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes. George Eliot distance eye people In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also. George Eliot singles age men A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good. George Eliot chance children thinking there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to. George Eliot used two way
