George Eliot Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.”

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”

“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.”

“It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.”

“The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.”

“You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.”

“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”

“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”

“The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.”