Quotes by Eliot, George

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early oppor >>

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. >>

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are fore >>

Quotations about Character

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it. >>

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. >>

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse. >>

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George