Quotes from George Eliot
O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again...
- George Eliot
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
- George Eliot
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
- George Eliot
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
- George Eliot
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
- George Eliot
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.
- George Eliot
...that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment...
- George Eliot
Each day seems a new beginning, — a new acquaintance with grief.
- George Eliot
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
- George Eliot
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
- George Eliot
What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?
- George Eliot
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
- George Eliot