George Eliot Quotes about Happiness

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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

George Eliot

Happiness, Smile, Wise

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

George Eliot

Friendship, Happiness, Smile

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

George Eliot

Happiness, Years, How To Be Happy

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.50, 谷月社

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

George Eliot

Happiness, Misery, Worst

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

George Eliot

Happiness, Inspiring, Perseverance

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.152, Penguin

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

George Eliot

Happiness, Self, Preparation

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.656, Open Road Media

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

George Eliot

Happiness, Wisdom, Laughter

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

George Eliot

Happiness, Women, Heart