Wells Quotes by George Eliot

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

— George Eliot

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

— George Eliot

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

— George Eliot

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

— George Eliot

Things are achieved when they are well begun.

— George Eliot

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

— George Eliot

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

— George Eliot

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

— 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

Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own…

— George Eliot

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

— George Eliot

Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and…

— George Eliot

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest,…

— George Eliot

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great…

— George Eliot

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling…

— 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

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

— 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

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded…

— George Eliot

Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through…

— George Eliot

Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to…

— 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

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to…

— George Eliot

There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness…

— 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

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

— 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

Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.

— George Eliot

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are…

— George Eliot

Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well,…

— George Eliot

I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be…

— George Eliot

Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it…

— George Eliot

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can…

— George Eliot

A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was…

— 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

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth…

— George Eliot