George Eliot Quotes
+11Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
- George Eliot
+9It is never too late to be who you might have been.
- George Eliot
+7Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
- George Eliot
+7Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
+5One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
- George Eliot
+3The only failure one should fear is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
- George Eliot
+3It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don’t give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
- George Eliot
+3I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
- George Eliot
+1Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- George Eliot
+1These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
- George Eliot
+1Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
- George Eliot
+1Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
- George Eliot
+1Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
- George Eliot
+1Will 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?
- George Eliot
+1O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.
- George Eliot
+1The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
- George Eliot
+1There 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
+1Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
- George Eliot
+1As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
- George Eliot
+1Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
- George Eliot
+1The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
- George Eliot
+1All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
- George Eliot
+1Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right, decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
— George Eliot
+1What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
+1Gossip 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.
- George Eliot