George Eliot quotes - page 2

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. (George Eliot)
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
George Eliot
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
George Eliot
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
George Eliot
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
George Eliot
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.
George Eliot
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
George Eliot
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. (George Eliot)
Consequences are unpitying.
George Eliot
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George Eliot
Those who trust us educate us.
George Eliot
For 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 to have recovered hope.
George Eliot
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George Eliot
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
George Eliot
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
George Eliot
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium. (George Eliot)
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
George Eliot
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
George Eliot
The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
George Eliot