World Quotes by George Eliot

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

— George Eliot

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

— George Eliot

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

— George Eliot

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

— George Eliot

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine…

— George Eliot

“In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.”

— George Eliot

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

— George Eliot

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

— George Eliot

Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.'…

— George Eliot

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways…

— George Eliot

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes…

— George Eliot

You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a…

— George Eliot

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

— George Eliot

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are…

— George Eliot

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music…

— George Eliot

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to…

— 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

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

— George Eliot

The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest…

— George Eliot

Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in…

— 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

It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on…

— 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

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

Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which…

— George Eliot

There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have…

— George Eliot

And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have…

— 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

the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed…

— George Eliot

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

— George Eliot

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

— George Eliot

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us…

— George Eliot

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier…

— 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

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship…

— George Eliot

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces…

— George Eliot

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They…

— George Eliot

We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold…

— George Eliot

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them,…

— George Eliot

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is…

— George Eliot