All George Eliot Quotes
- There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. Been
- There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. Best
- We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. Folks
- What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. Dreary
- When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. Death
- Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. Happiness
- Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies… Afar
- Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them… Compare
- Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead… Caustic
- A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take… Acceptance
- I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the… Beyond
- But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric… Acts
- The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes. Another Soul
- Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most… Any
- Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Beauty
- And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are… Fairly
- Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people. Hurt
- It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. Always Fatal
- To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel,… Chords
- Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice. Judgment
- It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them… Communication
- What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet… Achieve
- Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to… All
- If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must… Ball
- There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks… Babies