It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
GEORGE ELIOTthere 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
-
-
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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 -
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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 -
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOT -
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
GEORGE ELIOT -
… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
GEORGE ELIOT -
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
GEORGE ELIOT -
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
GEORGE ELIOT -
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOT -
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
GEORGE ELIOT -
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
GEORGE ELIOT







