Famous Quotes by George Eliot
Below are famous quotes by George Eliot - English novelist (1819 - 1880).
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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 highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
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 only know them when they are gone.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
We ust find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
Wear a smile and have friends,
wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.
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