George Eliot
The pen name of Mary Ann Evans, an English novelist, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
Quotes by George Eliot
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
Our lives are not our own, but are given to us to be used for the good of others.
Don't judge a book by its cover.
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
It seems to me that we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels of our destiny stand mute by our side, and we only know their presence when they are gone.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
It is a good world, and we are all of us in it.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, and the world is obliged to find us in our wit.
The only failure is not to try.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
The world is an old woman, and she will not be improved.
Character is not cut in marble; it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of wisdom.