George Eliot Quotes

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

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
George Eliot

Sense, Hatred, Injury

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

Truth, Through, Rough

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
George Eliot

Long, Heaven, Ignorant

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George Eliot

Happiness, Self, May

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George Eliot

Self, Vision, Leave

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
George Eliot

Girl, Feeling, Understand

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
George Eliot

Good, May, Down

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
George Eliot

Experience, Human, Philosophy

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

Great, Different, Jokes

Excessive literary production is a social offense.
George Eliot

Social, Production, Literary

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
George Eliot

Love, Best, Outside

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George Eliot

Great, Genius, Discipline

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
George Eliot

Him, Trouble, Rest

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
George Eliot

Away, Keep, Run

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
George Eliot

Personal, Liking, Parties

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot

Social, Production, Conviction

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot

Best, Fear, Failure

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
George Eliot

Experience, Ability, Practical

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot

Wisdom, Laughter, Half

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
George Eliot

Men, Experience, Rather

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
George Eliot

Strong, True, Against

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
George Eliot

Woman, Enough, Common

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
George Eliot

Progress, Heat, Likely

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: November 22, 1819

Died: December 22, 1880

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