Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade

Quote by George Eliot

Topics: Courtesy Quotes

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to...

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to...

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do...

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do...

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful...

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful...

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by...

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling...

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less...

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less...

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort...

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort...

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be...

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be...

It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows...

It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows...

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

I just want you that's it. All your flaws, mistakes, smiles, giggles, jokes, sarcasm. Everything....

I just want you that's it. All your flaws, mistakes, smiles, giggles, jokes, sarcasm. Everything....

Really enjoy is like an hour glass, with the heart filling up as the brain...

Really enjoy is like an hour glass, with the heart filling up as the brain...