Thinking Quotes by George Eliot

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

— George Eliot

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

— George Eliot

I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

— George Eliot

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

— George Eliot

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

— George Eliot

I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.

— George Eliot

The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn…

— George Eliot

Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing…

— 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 think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

— 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

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

— George Eliot

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get…

— George Eliot

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few…

— George Eliot

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one…

— George Eliot

I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts…

— George Eliot

I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other…

— 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

You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the…

— George Eliot

When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever…

— George Eliot

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage…

— George Eliot

I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of…

— George Eliot

I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as…

— George Eliot

Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of…

— 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 used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering…

— George Eliot

I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes…

— George Eliot

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us;…

— George Eliot

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

— George Eliot

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

— George Eliot

I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest…

— George Eliot

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

— George Eliot

I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's…

— 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

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble…

— George Eliot

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

— George Eliot

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

— George Eliot

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

— George Eliot