No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
GEORGE ELIOTWe must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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 -
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
GEORGE ELIOT -
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOT -
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
GEORGE ELIOT -
I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
GEORGE ELIOT -
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOT -
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT -
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
GEORGE ELIOT -
It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
GEORGE ELIOT -
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
GEORGE ELIOT -
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOT