Quotes from George Eliot

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude...

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

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

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

for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

Animals are such agreeable friends?they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.

Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, pass no criticisms.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.