1819-1880, British Novelist
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.
George Eliot – [Beauty]


It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness — calling their denial knowledge.
George Eliot – [Things and Little Things]


It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot – [Dreams]


It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
George Eliot – [Conceit]


It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
George Eliot – [Poverty and The Poor]


It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
George Eliot – [Self-knowledge]


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 – [Ambition]


It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
George Eliot – [Temper]


It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George Eliot – [Action]


It's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.
George Eliot – [Getting Ahead]


Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
George Eliot – [Repetition]


Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot – [Jealousy]


Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
George Eliot – [Integrity]


Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
George Eliot – [Kisses and Kissing]


Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
George Eliot – [Change]


Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
George Eliot – [Letters]


Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George Eliot – [Marriage]


Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
George Eliot – [Men]


Might, could, would –they are contemptible auxiliaries.
George Eliot – [Language]


More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot – [Pity]

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