George Eliot

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

George Eliot

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

George Eliot

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

George Eliot

We look at the one little woman’s face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.

George Eliot

We mustn’t be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.

George Eliot

We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

George Eliot

What is opportunity to the man who can’t use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

George Eliot

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

George Eliot

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

George Eliot