Quotes By George Eliot
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George Eliot
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.
George Eliot
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
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
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot
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.
George Eliot
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot