George Eliot Quotes

• What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Inspirational

• We hand folks over to G-d’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Mercy

• Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hell

• Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Family

• Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Music

• People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in People

• Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Art, Knowledge

• It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Poetry

• It’s never too late to be what you might have been.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Might

• It’s never too late to be what you might have been

  George Eliot

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Never, Late

• You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

  George Eliot

  Topics in History

  Tags in Ostracism, Persecution

• You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Slavery, Girl

• Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Night, Silence

• Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Vision

  Tags in World, Ourselves, Glory

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

  George Eliot

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Happiness

• When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves, Limitation, Exclusion

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

  George Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves, Tenderness, Severity

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

  George Eliot

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Tenderness, Severity

• What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Dreary

• 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.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Love, Soul

  Tags in Human

George Eliot (181)

Birth:	22nd November, 1819
Death:	22nd December, 1880
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Translator

About

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. She was an English novelist and translator. She wrote several novels include: Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. In fact, her first major literary work was an English translation of Strauss's The Life of Jesus, which she completed after it had been left incomplete by another member of the "Rosehill Circle".

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