George Eliot Quotes

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other... view

By: George Eliot

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment... view

By: George Eliot

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry... view

By: George Eliot

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down... view

By: George Eliot

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other... view

By: George Eliot

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

By: George Eliot

Adventure is not outside man.. view

By: George Eliot

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet.. view

By: George Eliot

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love... view

By: George Eliot

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections... view

By: George Eliot

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things... view

By: George Eliot

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life... view

By: George Eliot

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly.. view

By: George Eliot

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time.. view

By: George Eliot

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory... view

By: George Eliot

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another... view

By: George Eliot

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision... view

By: George Eliot

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best... view

By: George Eliot

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions... view

By: George Eliot

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate... view

By: George Eliot

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history... view

By: George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions.. view

By: George Eliot

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

By: George Eliot

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity.. view

By: George Eliot

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world... view

By: George Eliot

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

By: George Eliot

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance... view

By: George Eliot

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down... view

By: George Eliot

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive... view

By: George Eliot

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar... view

By: George Eliot

Quarrel? Nonsense.. view

By: George Eliot

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking... view

By: George Eliot

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would... view

By: George Eliot

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are... view

By: George Eliot

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds... view

By: George Eliot

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

By: George Eliot

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution... view

By: George Eliot

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love... view

By: George Eliot

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!.. view

By: George Eliot

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand... view

By: George Eliot

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life... view

By: George Eliot

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been... view

By: George Eliot