All George Eliot Quotes
- It is never too late to be what you might have been. Aging
- I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. Cheesy Love
- Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. Dead
- Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. Blessed
- Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. Began
- Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. Autumn
- Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. Attitude
- Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. Acquaintance
- Adventure is not outside man; it is within. Adventure
- Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. Anger
- It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be… Alive
- What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? Charity
- The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to… Age
- What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at… Brides
- Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. Children
- It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers… All
- What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? Distrust
- Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. Called
- The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we… Angel
- Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. Cruelty
- The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. Analogies
- Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. Anything Short
- The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. Beginning
- The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision. Judgment
- We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in… Christ