George Eliot Quotes About Opportunity

• But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Men, Use

  "The Sad Fortunes Of The Reverend Amos Barton".

• It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Thinking, Long

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.238, Wordsworth Editions

• What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

  George Eliot

  Time, Opportunity, Men

  George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.45

• Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Politics, Vices

  George Eliot (2010). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.549, The Floating Press

• 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

• What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Men, Use

  George Eliot (2016). “The Sad Fortunes Of The Reverend Amos Barton”, p.56, George Eliot

• To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Views, Cheerful

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.683, Xist Publishing

• The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Skills, Temptation

• What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Air, Satisfaction

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.24

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