Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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
-
-
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOT -
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
GEORGE ELIOT -
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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 -
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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 -
I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOT -
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOT -
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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 -
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 -
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
GEORGE ELIOT -
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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 -
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
GEORGE ELIOT