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George Eliot Quotes

British - Author | November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Wisdom Simple Will More Human Us

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

People Witty Who Themselves Exert

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

Wife Fool Man Wise Him Sure

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

Conviction Production Social Literary

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Feeling Security Too Much Little

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Truth Easy Difficult Falsehood

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Love Vanity Return Indifference Ease

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Marriage Sympathy Must Either

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Girl People Feeling Understand Most

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

Compliment Indifference Expression

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Life Private Life Determined Been

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Success Best Man World Thinks He

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