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Abstinence
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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
-George Eliot
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Action(s)
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
-George Eliot
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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
-George Eliot
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Adversity
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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.
-George Eliot
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Age
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In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
-George Eliot
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
-George Eliot
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Ambition
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
-George Eliot
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It's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.
-George Eliot
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Ancestry, Ancestors
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Breed is stronger than pasture.
-George Eliot
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Angels
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they're gone.
-George Eliot
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Anger
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
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It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
-George Eliot
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Animals
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Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
-George Eliot
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Appearance
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
-George Eliot
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Authors & Writing
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I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
-George Eliot
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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
-George Eliot
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Beauty
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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.
-George Eliot
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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.
-George Eliot
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Belief
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
-George Eliot
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Career, Vocation
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He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swings and makes his point or else is carried headlong.
-George Eliot
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Change
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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
-George Eliot
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Character
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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?
-George Eliot
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Charity
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
-George Eliot
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Children
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A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
-George Eliot
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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
-George Eliot
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Books by and about George Eliot