George Eliot Quotes

There is no feeling except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music.

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change the succession of influences that modify the being.

Necessity does the work of courage.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.

Best friend my well-spring in the wilderness!

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.

Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Animals are such agreeable friends- they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it.

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere.

'Tis what I love determines how I love.

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams a shadow annihilates them.

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

Men's men: be they gentle or simple they're much of a muchness.

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.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.

Time like money is measured by our needs.

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.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Speech may be barren but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.

Our words have wings but fly not where we would.

We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.