George Eliot

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity. ↗

— George Eliot

#materialism #vanity #life

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates. ↗

— George Eliot

#humor #life #wisdom #friendship

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts? ↗

— George Eliot

#pride #self-centeredness #life

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

— George Eliot

#jealousy #neighborhood #jealousy

I shall do everything it becomes me to do. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with. ↗

— George Eliot

#truth-of-life #life

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance. ↗

— George Eliot

#father-and-son #life

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought. ↗

— George Eliot

#humility #physician #psychology #death

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed. ↗

— George Eliot

#life