George Eliot: Trending quotes (page 4)

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”

“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”

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

“Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.”

“Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.”

“I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.”

“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds …”

“It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”

“And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.”

“Don't judge a book by its cover”

“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”

“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!”

“What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.”

“Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.”

“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.”

“Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.”