Quotes by George Eliot

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

#George Eliot

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

#George Eliot

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest...

#George Eliot

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

#George Eliot

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant...

#George Eliot

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are...

#George Eliot

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a...

#George Eliot

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less...

#George Eliot

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands...

#George Eliot

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

#George Eliot

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

#George Eliot

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it...

#George Eliot