Quote

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself that's where it is.

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
Firsts
Hole
First
Holes
Must
Round
Made
Rounds
Make
Ball
Balls
Slip
Fit
Slips
Places
Ems

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.
George Eliot
Image
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
George Eliot
Image
Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.
George Eliot
Image
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
George Eliot
Image
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot
Image
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
George Eliot
Image
There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.
George Eliot
Image
The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
George Eliot
Image
But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?
George Eliot
Image
The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.
George Eliot
Image
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
George Eliot
Image
The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
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
No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.
George Eliot
Image
It is hard to believe long together that anything is worth while, unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
George Eliot
Image
Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.
George Eliot
Image
Consequences are unpitying.
George Eliot
Image
So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
George Eliot
Image
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us as if life were not sacred too.
George Eliot
Image
We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.
George Eliot