George Eliot Quotes

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot

Deeds, Determine

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
George Eliot

Trying, Sure, Pregnant

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George Eliot

Simple, Words, Language

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
George Eliot

Happiness, Freedom, Perfect

There are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Eliot

Fear, Defeat, Worse

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

Great, Whatever, Ourselves

Breed is stronger than pasture.
George Eliot

Stronger, Breed, Pasture

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot

Painful, Duty, Apt

Consequences are unpitying.
George Eliot

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
George Eliot

Feeling, Against, Security

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot

Love, Evil, Effort

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

Dad, End, Father

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George Eliot

Soul, Belief, Accepting

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
George Eliot

Woman, Same, Else

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot

Truth, Difficult, Easy

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot

Him, Thought, Sun

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
George Eliot

Future, Past, Desire

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
George Eliot

Nature, Reason, Private

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot

Knowledge, Ignorance, Down

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George Eliot

Marriage, Sympathy, Either

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot

Great, Done, Ask

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
George Eliot

Words, Fly, Wings

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot

Work, Men, Forward

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot

Power, Another, Duty

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
George Eliot

Truth, Through, Rough

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: November 22, 1819

Died: December 22, 1880

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