“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.”
– George Eliot
“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
– George Eliot
“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
– George Eliot
“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
– George Eliot
“I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ’em to match the men.”
– George Eliot
“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”
– George Eliot
“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.”
– George Eliot
“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.”
– George Eliot
“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.”
– George Eliot
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”
– George Eliot
“No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.”
– George Eliot
“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
– George Eliot
“The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.”
– George Eliot
“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
“Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.”
– George Eliot
“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”
– George Eliot
“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.”
– George Eliot
“Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.”
– George Eliot
“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”
– George Eliot
“In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.”
– George Eliot
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
– George Eliot
“Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.”
– George Eliot
“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 important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
– George Eliot
“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.”
– George Eliot
“I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ’em to match the men.”
– George Eliot
“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
– George Eliot
“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”
– George Eliot
“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”
– George Eliot
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
– George Eliot