259 quotes
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
Daniel Deronda (1876)
It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.
Adam Bede (1859)
Where you have friends you should not go to inns.
Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861)
That big muscular frame of his held plenty of animal courage, but helped him to no decision when the dangers to be braved were such as could neither be knocked down nor throttled.
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861)
Hopes have precarious life.
They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off
In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
The Spanish Gypsy (1868)
Dear, I trusted you
As holy men trust God. You could do naught
That was not pure and loving—though the deed
Might pierce me unto death.
The Spanish Gypsy (1868)
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
Daniel Deronda (1876)
There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.
Daniel Deronda (1876)
Her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world.
Adam Bede (1859)
It was a room where you had no reason for sitting in one place rather than in another.
Middlemarch (1871)
People who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.
Adam Bede (1859)
The devil tempts us not—'tis we tempt him,
Reckoning his skill with opportunity.
Music sweeps by me as a messenger
Carrying a message that is not for me.
Spanish Gypsy (1868)
Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless; nay, the speech they have resolved not to make.
The tread
Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher
Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause,
And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
The Spanish Gypsy (1868)
But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
Middlemarch (1871)
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
'Tis what I love determines how I love.
The Spanish Gypsy (1868)
He hated the thought of the past; there was nothing that called out his love and fellowship toward the strangers he had come amongst; and the future was all dark.
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861)