George Eliot Quotes
+8Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
+4A man deep wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
- George Eliot
+2It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
+1Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
- George Eliot
+1Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- George Eliot
+1Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
+1Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
- George Eliot
+1These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
- George Eliot
+1Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
- George Eliot
+1Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
- George Eliot
+1Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
- George Eliot
+1It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don’t give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
- George Eliot
+1Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?
- George Eliot
+1I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
- George Eliot
+1There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
- George Eliot
+1Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
- George Eliot
+1It’s but little good you’ll do a watering the last year’s crops.
- George Eliot
+1As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
- George Eliot
+1Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
- George Eliot
+1The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
- George Eliot
+1All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
- George Eliot
+1Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right, decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
— George Eliot
+1There’s no disappointment in memory, and one’s exaggerations are always on the good side.
- George Eliot
+1He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
- George Eliot
+1What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
+1One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
- George Eliot
+1Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays.
– George Eliot
+1Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
- George Eliot
+1Hatred is like fire it makes even light rubbish deadly.
- George Eliot
+1What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
- George Eliot
+1We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
- George Eliot
+1The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
- George Eliot
+1No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
- George Eliot
+1Park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his.
- George Eliot
+1No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
- George Eliot
+1Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
- George Eliot
+1Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
- George Eliot
+1Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.
- George Eliot
+1Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
- George Eliot
+1Anger seek it prey, Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.
- George Eliot
