George Eliot Quotes

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George Eliot

Profession : Author

Birth : November 22, 1819

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

George Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

George Eliot

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

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 a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

George Eliot

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

George Eliot

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

George Eliot

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

George Eliot

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

George Eliot

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

George Eliot

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

George Eliot

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

George Eliot

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

George Eliot

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

George Eliot

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

George Eliot

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot