All George Eliot Quotes
- Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities. Calculation
- As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given to us to guide our own steps. We are like… Battle
- Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a… Allowance
- You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin. Begin
- A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from… Accents
- To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view… Asked
- What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our… All
- Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. Abstract
- One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. Fellow
- We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us. All
- The beauty of a lovely woman is like music. Beauty
- If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed. All
- Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it. Comfort
- In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues. Caress
- Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all… Advantage
- It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner. Foolish
- What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known? Knowledge
- Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will… Cards
- There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good. Common
- It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart. Heart
- There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail. Fail
- Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not… Averted
- A good solid bit of work lasts. Bit
- There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side. Disappointment
- Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And… Any