1819-1880, British Novelist
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.
George Eliot – [Inspiration]
My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
George Eliot – [Progress]
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
George Eliot – [Compliments]
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot – [Evil]
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot – [Achievement]
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
George Eliot – [Books and Reading]
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot – [Expectation]
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.
George Eliot – [Knowledge]
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?
George Eliot – [Insects]
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
George Eliot – [Giving]
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
George Eliot – [Evil]
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
George Eliot – [Recreation]
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
George Eliot – [Intelligence and Intellectuals]
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George Eliot – [Martyrdom]
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot – [Death and Dying]
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot – [Deeds and Good Deeds]
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
George Eliot – [Deeds and Good Deeds]
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
George Eliot – [Impartiality]
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans –which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.
George Eliot – [Travel and Tourism]
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
George Eliot – [Passion]
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