| 77 Famous Quotes by George Eliot
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“One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why”
Animals Quotes |
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“Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity”
Cruelty Quotes |
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“The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another”
Fulfilment Quotes |
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“Hear Everything and judge for yourself”
Hearing Quotes |
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“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us”
Pity Quotes |
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“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous”
Prophecy Quotes |
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“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”
Friendship Quotes |
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“Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.”
Friendship Quotes |
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“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
Choices Quotes |
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“Those who trust us educate us.”
Education Quotes |
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“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”
Fools Quotes |
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“What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.”
Kindness Quotes |
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“I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.”
Music Quotes |
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“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”
Questions Quotes |
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“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
Tenderness Quotes |
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“A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
Affection Quotes |
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“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”
Age Quotes |
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“Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.”
Agreement Quotes |
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“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
Anger Quotes |
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“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”
Applause Quotes |
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“He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.”
Arrogance Quotes |
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“I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.”
Comfort Quotes |
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“I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.”
Conceit Quotes |
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“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”
Criticism Quotes |
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“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
Despair Quotes |
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George Eliot Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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