George Eliot Quotes on World (20 Quotes)

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. He was simply a man whose desires had been stronger than his theoretic beliefs, and who had gradually explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with those beliefs. If this be hypocrisy, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all....

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

So to live is heaven:
To make undying music in the world,
Breathing a beauteous order that controls
With growing sway the growing life of man.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

. . . her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world.

There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

... for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world.

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