George Eliot Quotes

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

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

topic:heart

“It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:strength greatness

“For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:strength words

“it is seldom a medical man has true religious views—there is too much pride of intellect.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:religion intelligence pride

“I'm not to be imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

topic:words

“pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:pain memory

“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:pain pride hurting

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

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:pain hope despair

“Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:world

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