George Eliot Quotes

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?"

"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees."

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

"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."

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

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

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."

"All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation."

"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."

"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

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

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

"It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view."

"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved."

"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."

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

"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories."

"When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity."

"Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar."

"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."

"Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life."

"When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity."

"The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision."

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."