Quote

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

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
Except
Nobody
Strength
Terrible
Mastery
Thought
Obstacles
Everything
Ambition
Different
Oneself
Meant

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.
George Eliot
Image
The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.
George Eliot
Image
All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
George Eliot
Image
It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.
George Eliot
Image
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot
Image
How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him. . . .
George Eliot
Image
Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.
George Eliot
Image
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
George Eliot
Image
Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly
George Eliot
Image
But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.
George Eliot
Image
I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.
George Eliot
Image
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot
Image
I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
George Eliot
Image
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
George Eliot
Image
The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.
George Eliot
Image
Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.
George Eliot
Image
It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.
George Eliot
Image
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
George Eliot
Image
Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.
George Eliot
Image
What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.
George Eliot