George Eliot Men Quotations [Page 2]

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

... men and women are but children of a larger growth ...

A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

Education is an asset no man can take away.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

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

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness...

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

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