Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTAnimals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTWe have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
GEORGE ELIOTKnowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOTThe 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 ELIOTI 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 ELIOTJews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
GEORGE ELIOTThe important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
GEORGE ELIOTOne can say everything best over a meal.
GEORGE ELIOTThe troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOTWe must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
GEORGE ELIOTTo have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTShe was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTExamining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
GEORGE ELIOTPeople who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
GEORGE ELIOT