All George Eliot Quotes
- Teach love, for that is what you are. Funny
- When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's… Aunt
- We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us. Act
- What is opportunity to a man who can't use it. Inspirational
- The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but… Cheat
- Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs. Book
- Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me Carrying
- I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson. Learn
- An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. Ass
- So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world. Choir
- If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning,… Banner
- You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable. Argument
- 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 reckoning we can't… Addition
- "Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations. Abroad
- It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism. Demand
- This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it. Finger
- To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called… Act
- But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him… Apt
- I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars. Along
- A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a… Age
- Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is… Certainty
- Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls… Action
- The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection. Conquer
- ..the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families... Accepting
- You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing. Church