50 George Eliot Quotes That Will Inspire You

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50 Best George Eliot Quotes

1. “It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.” – George Eliot

2. “A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.” – George Eliot

3. “There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.” – George Eliot

4. “Those who trust us educate us.” – George Eliot

5. “Blameless people are always the most exasperating.” – George Eliot

6. “For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.” – George Eliot

7. “I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.” – George Eliot

8. “Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.” – George Eliot

9. “The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.” – George Eliot

10. “Starting a long way off the true point by loops and zigags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.” – George Eliot

11. “All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.” – George Eliot

12. “No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.” – George Eliot

13. “When a man turns a blessing from his door, it falls to them as take it in.” – George Eliot

14. “We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.” – George Eliot

15. “I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me.” – George Eliot

16. “Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.” – George Eliot

17. “Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.” – George Eliot

18. “Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.” – George Eliot

19. “One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.” – George Eliot

20. “For what is love itself, for the one we love best? – an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.” – George Eliot

21. “Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.” – George Eliot

22. “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” – George Eliot

23. “Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.” – George Eliot

24. “A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.” – George Eliot

25. “Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.” – George Eliot

26. “It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.” – George Eliot

27. “Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.” – George Eliot

28. Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.” – George Eliot

29. “Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.” – George Eliot

30. “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” – George Eliot

31. “Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.” – George Eliot

32. “Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.” – George Eliot

33. “The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.” – George Eliot

34. “One can begin so many things with a new person! – even begin to be a better man.” – George Eliot

35. “The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.” – George Eliot

36. “I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.” – George Eliot

37. “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” – George Eliot

38. “I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.” – George Eliot

39. “Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.” – George Eliot

40. “Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.” – George Eliot

41. “I don’t make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so. Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions.” – George Eliot

42. “The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.” – George Eliot

43. “She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.” – George Eliot

44. “We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.” – George Eliot

45. “Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.” – George Eliot

46. “What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.” – George Eliot

47. “It will never rain roses when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.” – George Eliot

48. “Her own misery filled her heart there was no room in it for other people’s sorrow.” – George Eliot

49. “Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say.” – George Eliot

50. “We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.” – George Eliot

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