George Eliot Quotes

“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:feeling

“People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:bravery

“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:intelligence

“To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:joy body

“Doubtless this persistence was the best course for his own dignity: but pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:pride vanity

“the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:history

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

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:failure

“In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:failure

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

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:forgiveness

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