George Eliot Quotes & Quotations

George Eliot Quotes

» The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

» Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

» No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

» Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

» It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

» 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

» But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

» Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

» Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

» Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

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