Littles Quotes by George Eliot

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.

— George Eliot

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

— George Eliot

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

Appearances have very little to do with happiness.

— George Eliot

I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.

— George Eliot

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

— George Eliot

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can…

— George Eliot

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little…

— George Eliot

For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who…

— George Eliot

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may…

— George Eliot

In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded…

— George Eliot

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any…

— George Eliot

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

— George Eliot

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and…

— George Eliot

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love…

— George Eliot

May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one…

— George Eliot

O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for…

— George Eliot

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same…

— George Eliot

even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt,…

— George Eliot

In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of…

— George Eliot

The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count…

— George Eliot

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's…

— George Eliot

Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning;…

— George Eliot

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of…

— George Eliot

It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity,…

— George Eliot

For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little…

— George Eliot

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to…

— George Eliot

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company…

— George Eliot

We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see…

— George Eliot

How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander…

— George Eliot

But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves…

— George Eliot

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people…

— George Eliot

Fairy folk a-listening Hear the seed sprout in the spring, And for music to their dance Hear the hedgerows wake from trance,…

— George Eliot