Quote

We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.

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
Fruit
Shadow
Spring
Gives
Justice
Planting
Nature
Blossom
Giving
Reap
Love
Abundance

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.
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
In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
George Eliot
Image
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
George Eliot
Image
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us as if life were not sacred too.
George Eliot
Image
The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.
George Eliot
Image
There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.
George Eliot
Image
In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.
George Eliot
Image
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
Image
Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.
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
Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.
George Eliot
Image
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot
Image
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
George Eliot
Image
It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.
George Eliot
Image
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
George Eliot
Image
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
George Eliot
Image
Brothers are so unpleasant.
George Eliot
Image
There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.
George Eliot
Image
I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.
George Eliot