Quotes from George Eliot
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
- George Eliot
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
- George Eliot
What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.
- George Eliot
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
- George Eliot
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
- George Eliot
I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.
- George Eliot
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
- George Eliot
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
- George Eliot
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
- George Eliot
It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
- George Eliot
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
- George Eliot
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
- George Eliot