Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
George Eliot
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Applies
Evil
Another
Wells
Well
Good
Verity
More quotes by George Eliot
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot
Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
George Eliot
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.
George Eliot
In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
George Eliot
There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.
George Eliot
We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
George Eliot
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
George Eliot
The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings it will have the soul all to itself.
George Eliot
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot
Human experience is usually paradoxical.
George Eliot
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
George Eliot
When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
George Eliot
The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.
George Eliot
There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.
George Eliot
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
George Eliot
There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.
George Eliot
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
George Eliot
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot
Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.
George Eliot
When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.
George Eliot
