~ George Eliot Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

[MysteRy]

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

[MysteRy]

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

[MysteRy]

Life is measured by the rapidity of change the succession of influences that modify the being.

[MysteRy]

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

[MysteRy]

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.

[MysteRy]

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

[MysteRy]

'Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.

[MysteRy]

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

[MysteRy]

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.

[MysteRy]

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will have it if they cannot find it.

[MysteRy]

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

[MysteRy]

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

[MysteRy]

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger for them.

[MysteRy]

The years seem to rush by now and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.