"Daniel Deronda" Quotes

We are all of us failures—at least, the best of us are.

We're not objects of men's pity or contempt, but their fellow creatures.

Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

That is the lot of all women. They learn to believe in half measures.

It's not our talents that make us dear to other people. It's our vulnerabilities.

Our words have wings, but our actions have feet.

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

In human things there is no security.

It is one thing to be idle and feel idle, and quite another to be idle and feel active.