George Eliot
English novelist (Mary Ann Evans), 1819-1880
20 quotes.
Quotes by George Eliot
- A good solid bit of work lasts.
- Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.
- Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
- Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
- Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- Character is not cut in marble--it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
- Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
- I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. The realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
- The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
- Irritation, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
- No great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty.
- One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
- The blessed work of helping the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another.
- Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth: we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.
- Those who trust us educate us.
- What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
- What we have been makes us what we are.
- When death comes, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
- It's never too late to be what you might have been.