George Eliot Quotes
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
There`s folks `ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i` their boots.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Be courteous, be obliging, but don`t give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
I`m proof against that word failure. I`ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
It`s never too late to be who you might have been.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms
Hear Everything and judge for yourself
The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
