George Eliot Quotes

"What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
-George Eliot

"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."
-George Eliot

"Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother."
-George Eliot

"But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty."
-George Eliot

"Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other."
-George Eliot

"The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots."
-George Eliot

"Wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles."
-George Eliot

"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
-George Eliot

"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress."
-George Eliot

"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."
-George Eliot

"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."
-George Eliot in Music quotes.

"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 in Music quotes.

"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away."
-George Eliot

"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
-George Eliot

"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
-George Eliot in Pets quotes.

"There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots."
-George Eliot

"One of the tortures of jealousy is that it can never turn its eyes away from the thing that pains it."
-George Eliot

"We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."
-George Eliot

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories."
-George Eliot in Soul quotes.

"Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow."
-George Eliot

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."
-George Eliot in Decisions quotes.

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
-George Eliot

"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
-George Eliot

"Our deeds are like children that are born to us;they live and act apart from our own will."
-George Eliot

"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"
-George Eliot

"The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth."
-George Eliot

"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
-George Eliot