Quotes from George Eliot
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.
- George Eliot
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
- George Eliot
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.
- George Eliot
Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.
- George Eliot
The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.
- George Eliot
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
- George Eliot
What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
- George Eliot
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.
- George Eliot
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
- George Eliot
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
- George Eliot
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
- George Eliot
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.
- George Eliot