George Eliot Quotes

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

Blessed influence of one true, loving human soul on another. Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the hidden process by which the tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasselled flower.

High achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes.

His smile is sweetened by his gravity.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

There's no pleasure i' living if you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.

But then the need of being loved, the strongest need ... in poor Maggie's nature, began to wrestle with her pride and soon threw it.