Quotes by George Eliot

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who l

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

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you ar

You are never too old to be what you might have been.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Vanity is rather a sewing machine for mending the rips in the poor patches of one's character.

Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.

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.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Quarreling is a vice of narrow minds.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Mighty is the force of motherhood.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right, decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

Is there any instinct so deep as the instinct for immortality?

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

You should read history, not to get the odd facts but to get the sensibility.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Unvisited by sorrow, no longer cherished by wisdom.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Reality is the strongest imagination could ever be.

Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

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 silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parti

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

It has always been for me a question whether the regret of a lost love is as sharp as the pain of a love unreturned.

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 recovered hope.

It is never too late to be who you might have been.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

It is the chief sorrow of life that we lose our illusions.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

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