George Eliot Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

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

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

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