Quotes by
George Eliot |
1819-1880 , English writer
George Eliot was the male pseudonym of Mary Ann, or Marian, née Evans. English Victorian novelist who developed the method of psychological analysis characteristic of modern fiction. Her major works include The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876).
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Quotations
| • | It is never too late to be what you might have been. 9 |
| • | I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. 4 |
| • | Those who trust us educate us. 3 |
| • | Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others. 3 |
| • | I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me. 3 |
| • | One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. 2 |
| • | Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. |
| • | It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. |
| • | It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. |
| • | And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. |
| • | Animals are such agreeable friends ―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. |
| • | It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much. |
| • | But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. |
| • | People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are. |
| • | Don't judge a book by its cover. |
| • | One can begin so many things with a new person! – even begin to be a better man. |
| • | One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. |
| • | I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like. |
| • | The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision. |
| • | People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors. |
| • | When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. |
| • | Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. |
| • | No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. |
| • | Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. |
| • | Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness. |
| • | I protest against any absolute conclusion. |
| • | She hates everything that is not what she longs for. |
| • | A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones. |
| • | Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. |
| • | I don't make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so. Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions. |
| • | I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets. |
| • | We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves. |
| • | 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. |
| • | I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. |
| • | Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions! |
| • | If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else. |
| • | He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. |
| • | We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it… |
| • | A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. |
| • | Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. |
| • | What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? |
| • | It’s but little good you’ll do a-watering the last year’s crop. |
| • | In every parting there is an image of death. |
| • | Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. |
| • | The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. |
| • | The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. |
| • | The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. |
| • | We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us. |
| • | 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. |
