Quote

Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

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
Limbs
Wit
Leaves
Rest
Force
Form

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
George Eliot
Image
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot
Image
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
George Eliot
Image
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
Image
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
George Eliot
Image
There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.
George Eliot
Image
It must be sad to outlive aught we love.
George Eliot
Image
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
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
So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.
George Eliot
Image
I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
George Eliot
Image
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
George Eliot
Image
What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
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
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot
Image
History repeats itself.
George Eliot
Image
It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.
George Eliot
Image
This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.
George Eliot