Author: George Eliot

Quotes

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

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

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

- George Eliot

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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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