Famous George Eliot Quotes

  • The devil tempts us not; ’tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity. – George Eliot

    The devil tempts us not; ’tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.– George Eliot

  • It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. – George Eliot

    It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.– George Eliot

  • One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated. – George Eliot

    One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.– George Eliot

  • Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. – George Eliot

    Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.– George Eliot

  • I don’t see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly. – George Eliot

    I don’t see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.– George Eliot

  • The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past. – George Eliot

    The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.– George Eliot

  • It is just that I don’t know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs. – George Eliot

    It is just that I don’t know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs.– George Eliot

  • Aye, aye, that’s the way wi’ thee: thee allays makes a peck o’ thy own words out o’ a pint o’ the Bible’s – George Eliot

    Aye, aye, that’s the way wi’ thee: thee allays makes a peck o’ thy own words out o’ a pint o’ the Bible’s– George Eliot

  • We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours. – George Eliot

    We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.– George Eliot

  • We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.– George Eliot