Quote

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

George Eliot

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
Editor
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Translator
Writer
Mary Anne Evans
Mary Ann Evans
Marian Evans
Mary Anne Evans Cross
Mary Anne Cross
Without
Self
Prepare
Trying
Preparation
Literature
Happiness
Whether
May
Come

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.
George Eliot
Image
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George Eliot
Image
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
George Eliot
Image
A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
George Eliot
Image
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
George Eliot
Image
It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
George Eliot
Image
It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.
George Eliot
Image
You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
George Eliot
Image
Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.
George Eliot
Image
As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.
George Eliot
Image
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.
George Eliot
Image
I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.
George Eliot
Image
... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.
George Eliot
Image
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
George Eliot
Image
... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should but in a light way, you know.
George Eliot
Image
Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
George Eliot
Image
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.
George Eliot
Image
in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
George Eliot
Image
Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?
George Eliot
Image
I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.
George Eliot