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
+1The only failure one should fear is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
- 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
+1O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.
- 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
+1The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
- 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