George Eliot

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness. ↗

— George Eliot

#infatuation #life

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. ↗

— George Eliot

#belief #consists #denying #soul #them

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. ↗

— George Eliot

#submission #life

I protest against any absolute conclusion. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. ↗

— George Eliot

#limit #life

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals. ↗

— George Eliot

#simplicity #life

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors. ↗

— George Eliot

#neighbors #life

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself. ↗

— George Eliot

#self-doubt #life

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates. ↗

— George Eliot

#humor #life #wisdom #friendship