Quotes from George Eliot
Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!
- George Eliot
It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money.
- George Eliot
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.
- George Eliot
What makes life dreary is want of motive.
- George Eliot
Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.
- George Eliot
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
- George Eliot
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
- George Eliot
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
- George Eliot
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
- George Eliot
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- George Eliot
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.
- George Eliot