Quote

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

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
Memory
Memories
Side
Sides
Good
Always
Exaggerations
Exaggeration
Disappointment

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
George Eliot
Image
Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.
George Eliot
Image
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot
Image
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
George Eliot
Image
I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.
George Eliot
Image
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
George Eliot
Image
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
George Eliot
Image
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.
George Eliot
Image
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot
Image
Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
George Eliot
Image
All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.
George Eliot
Image
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
George Eliot
Image
Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
George Eliot
Image
After all, the true seeing is within.
George Eliot
Image
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.
George Eliot
Image
Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.
George Eliot
Image
It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
George Eliot
Image
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
George Eliot
Image
Eros has degenerated he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
George Eliot
Image
Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
George Eliot