The quotations of

George Eliot

English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist

1819–1880

46 quotes, most often on Emotion, Pride and Hope.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
The Mill on the Floss (1860)In context
- Wisdom
I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
The Mill on the Floss (1860)In context
- Pride
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return …
Daniel Deronda (1876)
- Love
- Pride
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
Daniel Deronda (1876)
- Talking
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.
Felix Holt, the Radical (1866)
- Failure
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before — consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.
Adam Bede (1859)
- Responsibility
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 to have recovered hope.
Adam Bede (1859)
- Hope
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
Adam Bede (1859)
- Beauty
- Emotion
Those who trust us educate us.
Daniel Deronda (1876)
- Education
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.
Adam Bede (1859)
- Truth & Lies
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
Middlemarch (1871-72)In context
- Change
The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.
“Janet’s Repentance” Ch. 10 in Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)
- Work
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts⁠—not to hurt others.
Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book I: Miss Brooke, Chapter VIIn context
- Pride
Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.
Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book II: Old and Young, Chapter XVIn context
- Character
- Pride
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book II: Old and Young, Chapter XVIIIn context
- Charity
- Money

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