George Eliot Quotations | Page 2

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.