George Eliot

Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear. ↗

— George Eliot

#speech #life

I should never like scolding any one else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

A bit o' bread's what I like from one year's end to the other; but men's stomachs are made so comical, they want a change--they do, I know, God help 'em. ↗

— George Eliot

#novelty #change

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours. ↗

— George Eliot

#silence #love

Men, like planets, have both a visible and invisible history. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him. ↗

— George Eliot

#history #myopia #perspective #reading #life

To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Probabilities—the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth. ↗

— George Eliot

#intelligence #intelligence

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures. ↗

— George Eliot

#rome #want #life

scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill ↗

— George Eliot

#life