Author: George Eliot

Quotes

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

- 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

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

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

- George Eliot

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

- 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

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

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

- George Eliot

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