George Eliot Quotes

We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .
George Eliot
I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.
George Eliot
Our words have wings but fly not where we would.
George Eliot
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger for them.
George Eliot
It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
George Eliot
Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are.
George Eliot
It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.
George Eliot
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
Speech may be barren but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
George Eliot
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George Eliot
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
George Eliot
Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries.
George Eliot
There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
George Eliot
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
George Eliot
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
George Eliot
Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.
George Eliot
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
George Eliot
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams a shadow annihilates them.
George Eliot
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
George Eliot
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.
George Eliot
The years seem to rush by now and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
George Eliot
Time like money is measured by our needs.
George Eliot
Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.
George Eliot
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
George Eliot
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
George Eliot
Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.
George Eliot
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
George Eliot
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams a shadow annihilates them.
George Eliot
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
George Eliot
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.
George Eliot
The years seem to rush by now and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
George Eliot
Time like money is measured by our needs.
George Eliot
Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.
George Eliot
What makes life dreary is want of motive.
George Eliot
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger for them.
George Eliot
Men's men: be they gentle or simple they're much of a muchness.
George Eliot
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.
George Eliot
Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.
George Eliot
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams a shadow annihilates them.
George Eliot
Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!
George Eliot
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.
George Eliot
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere.
George Eliot
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
George Eliot
Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it.
George Eliot