George Eliot Quotes and its meanings

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

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

In every parting there is an image of death.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

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?

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

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.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

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

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

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

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.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

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

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

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.

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

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

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.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

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?

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

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.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

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.

Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.