George Eliot

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

George Eliot

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

George Eliot

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

George Eliot

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.

George Eliot

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

George Eliot

The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.

George Eliot

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.

George Eliot

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey – double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

George Eliot

There are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

George Eliot

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

George Eliot