George Eliot Quotes About Luck

• Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

  George Eliot

  Education, Luck, Matter

  "Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot".

• As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

  George Eliot

  Good Luck, Men, Unlucky

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.374

• Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

  George Eliot

  Good Luck, Boys, Opportunity

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.205, 谷月社

• Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.

  George Eliot

  Luck, Mind, Use

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.143, George Eliot

• Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

  George Eliot

  Eggs, Luck, Would Be

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.16

• There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

  George Eliot

  Luck, Chance, Strings

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6293, Delphi Classics

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