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 ELIOTPeople who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
More George Eliot Quotes
-
-
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
GEORGE ELIOT -
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOT -
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
GEORGE ELIOT -
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOT -
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT -
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOT -
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
GEORGE ELIOT -
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOT -
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
GEORGE ELIOT -
“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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 -
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
GEORGE ELIOT -
It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
GEORGE ELIOT