George Eliot Quotes
1819 – 1880
English novelist, author of "Middlemarch" and "Daniel Deronda".
24 quotesAbout George Eliot on Wikipedia
“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.”
“We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.”
“Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.”
“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.”
“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.”
“Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.”
“An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.”
“There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.”
“Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.”
“The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”
“Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.”
