All George Eliot Quotes
- He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from… Aged
- One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated. Deprecated
- Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. Damnable
- It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up… Builds
- It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog. Fight
- Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines… Belief
- There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a… Any
- Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so . Belief
- He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that… Amusement
- Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection… Affection
- For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little… Among
- Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree… Attempt
- Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but… Better
- There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must… All
- May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love,… Agony
- But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge… Alleys
- Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures. Among
- What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. Egg
- Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms… Away Early
- It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the… Along
- Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability? Animal
- But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in… Animal
- Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly Beneficent
- Hear Everything and judge for yourself Hear
- A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories Blush