Famous Quotes

Quotes by George Eliot

• No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
• No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
• Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
• Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
• 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.
• Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
• The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
• The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
• The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
• The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
• The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
• The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
• The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
• There are many victories worse than a defeat.
• There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
• There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
• There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
• There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
• Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
• We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
• We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
• Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
• When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
• When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
• When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
• Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
• You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.