George Eliot's Quotes

George Eliot's Quotes 130

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will...

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

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

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her,...

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

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has...

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

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would...

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

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but...

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

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a...

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would...

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are...

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

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere...

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to...

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of...

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

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