George Eliot Quotes About Charity

• Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

  George Eliot

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  "The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern". Book compiled by Tryon Edwards et al., 1960.

• What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

  George Eliot

  Money, Luxury, Giving

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2974, ShandonPress

• The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

  George Eliot

  Change, Nature, Believe

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.498, Penguin

• ... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

  George Eliot

  Distance, Men, Squares

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.255, Penguin

• If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Heaven, Feelings

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.395, ShandonPress

• I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

  George Eliot

  People, Way, Charity

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.417, Wordsworth Editions

You May Also Like:

Jane Austen

Charlotte Bronte

Evelyn Waugh

Charles Dickens

Emily Bronte

Elizabeth Gaskell

Virginia Woolf