George Eliot Quotes.
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
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.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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?
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.
Might, could, would – they are contemptible auxiliaries.
All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
