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George Eliot Quotes

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

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Find Us Must Been Our Duties

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Experience Ability Spite Practical

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Love Anger Jealousy Lose Sight Bear

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Mind View Look Cannot Narrow Points

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Strength Woman Man Strong Will Her

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Progress Heat Like Friction Instead

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Women History Like Happiest Nations

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Happiness Heart Woman Small Feet

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Loneliness Lonely More Distrust Than

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

History Travel Past City Moving

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Passion Fire Jealousy Cloudy Little

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Communication Man Blessed Giving Say

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