Author: George Eliot

Quotes

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

- George Eliot

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

- George Eliot

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

- George Eliot

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 are gone.

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 are gone.

- George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

- George Eliot

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

- George Eliot

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

- George Eliot

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

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

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

- George Eliot

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