It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOTTo have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
More George Eliot Quotes
-
-
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
GEORGE ELIOT -
The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
GEORGE ELIOT -
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
GEORGE ELIOT -
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
GEORGE ELIOT -
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
GEORGE ELIOT -
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
GEORGE ELIOT -
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
GEORGE ELIOT -
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
GEORGE ELIOT -
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOT -
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
GEORGE ELIOT