Quotes from George Eliot
Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
- George Eliot
What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?
- George Eliot
Necessity does the work of courage.
- George Eliot
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
- George Eliot
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
- George Eliot
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
- George Eliot
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
- George Eliot
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
- George Eliot
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
- George Eliot
College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
- George Eliot
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
- George Eliot
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
- George Eliot