1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.

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.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.