George Eliot Quotes & Sayings (Page 13)

“It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.”

“That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.”

“The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.”

“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”

“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”

“Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?”

“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.”

“Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.”