Quote

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

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
Transforms
Mighty
Motherhood
Vital
Heat
Force
Things

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
George Eliot
Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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
Image
No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.
George Eliot
Image
What if my words Were meant for deeds.
George Eliot
Image
... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.
George Eliot
Image
Consequences are unpitying.
George Eliot
Image
How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.
George Eliot
Image
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.
George Eliot
Image
Those who trust us educate us.
George Eliot
Image
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
George Eliot
Image
Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.
George Eliot
Image
All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!
George Eliot
Image
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
George Eliot
Image
in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
George Eliot
Image
When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.
George Eliot
Image
Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.
George Eliot
Image
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.
George Eliot
Image
Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
George Eliot
Image
Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.
George Eliot