68 quotes by George Eliot

“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.” — George Eliot

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“Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.” — George Eliot

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“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.” — George Eliot

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“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.” — George Eliot

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“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.” — George Eliot

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“When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.” — George Eliot

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“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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“Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.” — George Eliot

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“In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.” — George Eliot

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“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.” — George Eliot

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“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.” — George Eliot

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“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.” — George Eliot

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“But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.” — George Eliot

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“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.” — George Eliot

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“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.” — George Eliot

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“Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.” — George Eliot

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“We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.” — George Eliot

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“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.” — George Eliot

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“Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.” — George Eliot

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“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.” — George Eliot

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“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.” — George Eliot

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“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?” — George Eliot

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“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.” — George Eliot

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“We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.” — George Eliot

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“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.” — George Eliot

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