Quotes from George Eliot
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.
- George Eliot
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.
- 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
But Fielding lived when the days were longer (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.
- George Eliot
Maxims are texts to which we turn in danger or sorrow, and we often find what seems to have been expressly written for our use.
- George Eliot
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
- George Eliot
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
- George Eliot
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
- George Eliot
Yes, that's the worst of it. It's a desperately vexatious thing that, after all one's reflections and quiet determinations, we should be ruled by moods that one can't calculate on beforehand.
- George Eliot
These fellow mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are.
- 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
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us.
- George Eliot