George Eliot Selfish Quotations

A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.

... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

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