1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.

Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.

The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.