George Eliot Quotes About Selfishness

• Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

  George Eliot

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Judgment

  George Eliot (2004). “Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.110, Sparklesoup LLC

• Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

  George Eliot

  Selfishness, Littles, Poor

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.176

• Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.

  George Eliot

  Motherhood, Vanity, Self

  George Eliot (1876). “Scenes of clerical life”, p.267

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