George Eliot Quotes

“Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.”

“Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside itself -- it only requires opportunity.”

“Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means – one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.”

“Hatred is like fire – it makes even light rubbish deadly.”

“Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.”

“The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.”

“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.”

“Worldly faces, never look so worldly as at a funeral.”