George Eliot

Go forward with joyful confidence.

George Eliot

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

George Eliot

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

George Eliot

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly.

George Eliot

He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

George Eliot

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

George Eliot

I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

George Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved.

George Eliot

I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

George Eliot

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot