There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. – George Eliot
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy. – George Eliot
Kisses honeyed by oblivion. – George Eliot
The reward of ones duty is the power to fulfill another. – George Eliot
We must not inquire too curiously into motives… They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. – George Eliot
And when a womans will is as strong as the mans who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. – George Eliot
Life began with waking up and loving my mothers face. – George Eliot
A womans heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. – George Eliot
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare ones self to do without it. – George Eliot
We hand folks over to Gods mercy, and show none ourselves. – George Eliot
Im not denyin the women are foolish. God Almighty made em to match the men. – George Eliot
Death is the king of this world: Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. – George Eliot
All the learnin my father paid for was a bit o birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. – George Eliot
Im proof against that word failure. Ive seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. – George Eliot
The best augury of a mans success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. – George Eliot
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. – George Eliot
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. – George Eliot
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. – George Eliot
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. – George Eliot
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. – George Eliot
