George Eliot Common Quotations

A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to