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George Eliot Quotes
English novelist
| “ | There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
The Mill on the Floss, 1860 | ” |
| “ | Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Silas Marner (1861) | ” |
| “ | Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
Scenes of Clerical Life - Amos Barton | ” |
| “ | 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.
Romola, 1863 | ” |
| “ | What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Middlemarch | ” |
| “ | Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
Middlemarch | ” |
| “ | The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866 | ” |
| “ | Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857 | ” |
| “ | Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
"Middlemarch", Book I, ch.1 | ” |
| “ | 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. | ” |
| “ | What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life? | ” |
| “ | 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 strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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| “ | The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. | ” |
| “ | The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. | ” |
| “ | 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. | ” |
| “ | One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
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| “ | It's never too late to be who you might have been. | ” |
| “ | Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
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| “ | 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. | ” |
| “ | 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.
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| “ | Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. | ” |
| “ | Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. | ” |
| “ | Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade. | ” |
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