George Eliot Quotes - Page 14
Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.
Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
