[ george eliot Quotes ]
Showing search results for George Eliot Quotes - 77 quotations by George Eliot - Dictionary Quotes
77 quotes (Page 2 of 4 pages)In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Fools and Foolishness
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 587 votes
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Dreams
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 445 votes
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
Action
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 625 votes
It's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.
Getting Ahead
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 570 votes
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
Repetition
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 631 votes
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
Integrity
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 637 votes
Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
Kisses and Kissing
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 648 votes
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
Change
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 628 votes
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Marriage
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 616 votes
Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
Men
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 493 votes
Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.
Language
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 573 votes
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
Pity
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 652 votes
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
Compliments
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 657 votes
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Achievement
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 600 votes
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Expectation
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 549 votes
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Giving
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 524 votes
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
Evil
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 483 votes
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
Recreation
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 770 votes
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
Martyrdom
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 671 votes
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Death and Dying
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 557 votes
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Deeds and Good Deeds
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 637 votes
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
Deeds and Good Deeds
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 649 votes
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
Impartiality
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 715 votes
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
Words
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 471 votes
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
Wit
George Eliot
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 595 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun