George Eliot Quotes

George Eliot Quotes.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christ

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George Eliot
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
George Eliot
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Eliot
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they shoul

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
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
George Eliot
Might, could, would – they are contemptible auxiliaries.
George Eliot
All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
George Eliot
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
George Eliot
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
George Eliot
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who w

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot