259 quotes
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861)
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
But is it what we love, or how we love,
That makes true good?
The Spanish Gypsy (1868)
As they who make
Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
The Spanish Gypsy (1868)
Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
Daniel Deronda (1876)
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Daniel Deronda (1876)
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.
Daniel Deronda (1876)
Her lot is made for her by the love she accepts.
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
Romola (1863)
What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
Daniel Deronda (1876)
Certain winds will make men's temper bad.
The Spanish Gypsy (1868)
He never had a doubt that such gods were;
He looked within, and saw them mirrored there.
The Legend of Jubal (1869)
A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories.
Daniel Deronda (1876)
We judge others according to results; how else?—not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
A serious ape whom none take seriously,
Obliged in this fool's world to earn his nuts
By hard buffoonery.
The Spanish Gypsy (1868)
Knightly love is blent with reverence
As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.
The Spanish Gypsy (1868)
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone than by unexpected words.