Quotes from 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
That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.
- 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
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
- 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
A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
- George Eliot
Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
- George Eliot
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.
- George Eliot
There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
- George Eliot
Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?
- George Eliot
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
- George Eliot
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
- George Eliot