Should Quotes by George Eliot

Where you have friends you should not go to inns.

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

— George Eliot

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

— George Eliot

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

— George Eliot

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

— George Eliot

We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

— George Eliot

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men,…

— George Eliot

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

— George Eliot

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

— George Eliot

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

— George Eliot

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like…

— George Eliot

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should…

— George Eliot

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the…

— George Eliot

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and…

— George Eliot

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is…

— George Eliot

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength…

— George Eliot

“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness,…

— George Eliot

There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women…

— George Eliot

How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love?…

— George Eliot

Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a…

— George Eliot

“After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may…

— George Eliot

Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually…

— George Eliot

These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify…

— 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

I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out…

— George Eliot

Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not…

— George Eliot

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.

— George Eliot

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to…

— George Eliot

... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest…

— George Eliot

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and…

— George Eliot

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

— George Eliot

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl…

— George Eliot

The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died…

— George Eliot

But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be…

— George Eliot

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind…

— George Eliot

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and…

— George Eliot

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those…

— George Eliot

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow…

— 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