Quotes By George Eliot

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

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.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

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

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

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

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.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

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

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

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

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

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