George Eliot Quotes

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

Marriage, Sympathy, Either

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
George Eliot

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot

Wisdom, Simple, Human

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George Eliot

Life, Glory, Neighbour

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
George Eliot

Expression, Except, Compliment

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
George Eliot

Time, After, Same

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot

Good, Nothing, Seems

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George Eliot

May, Become, Sweet

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

Travel, Makes, Deeds

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
George Eliot

Themselves, Witty, Devout

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot

May, Happen, Play

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
George Eliot

Wise, Fool, Wife

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot

Ignorance, Beginning, Whether

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
George Eliot

Success, Best, Thinks

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

Simple, Words, Made

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George Eliot

Women, History, Happiest

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot

Failure, Best, Fear

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
George Eliot

God, May, Again

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
George Eliot

Human, Choice, Lies

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George Eliot

Great, Country, Within

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
George Eliot

Life, Public, Determined

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George Eliot

Failure, Life, Best

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
George Eliot

Love, Cannot, Return

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
George Eliot

God, Show, Ourselves

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
George Eliot

Find, Might, Duties

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: November 22, 1819

Died: December 22, 1880

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