It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
GEORGE ELIOTI carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
More George Eliot Quotes
-
-
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
GEORGE ELIOT -
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
GEORGE ELIOT -
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOT -
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
GEORGE ELIOT -
there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
GEORGE ELIOT -
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOT -
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
GEORGE ELIOT -
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOT -
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
GEORGE ELIOT -
“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
GEORGE ELIOT -
I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
GEORGE ELIOT -
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT