1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

. . . for the stress of circumstances, Fred felt, was sharpening his acuteness and endowing him with all the constructive power of suspicion.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.