We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
GEORGE ELIOTQuarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
More George Eliot Quotes
-
-
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOT -
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
GEORGE ELIOT -
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOT -
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
GEORGE ELIOT -
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
GEORGE ELIOT -
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOT -
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
GEORGE ELIOT -
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOT -
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
GEORGE ELIOT -
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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 -
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOT






