George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from.
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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
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Now suddenly you got members of your White House team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.
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Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision
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Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.
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Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.
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The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.
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Love, too, has to be learned.
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You cannot treat with all the world at once.
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Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either.
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Life is too short to be organized
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A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
