Quotes By George Eliot

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

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

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

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.