Author: George Eliot

Quotes

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

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

- 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

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

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

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

- George Eliot

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

- George Eliot

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

- 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

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