George Eliot Quotes

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George Eliot

Profession : Author

Birth : November 22, 1819

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

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

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

George Eliot

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

George Eliot

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

George Eliot

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

George Eliot

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

George Eliot

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

George Eliot

In every parting there is an image of death.

George Eliot

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

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

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

George Eliot

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

George Eliot

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

George Eliot

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

George Eliot