Famous George Eliot Quotes
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
George Eliot
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
George Eliot
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George Eliot
I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.
George Eliot
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
George Eliot
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
George Eliot
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
George Eliot
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
George Eliot
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George Eliot
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
George Eliot
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
George Eliot
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot
