Skip to content

Love Quotes by George Eliot

134 Love quotes by George Eliot

All Love quotes George Eliot’s page

A mother's yearning for her child shows love as a deep, lasting pull. Love can bring sorrow, but that sorrow is part of its power. Simple moments, like sharing a meal, often reveal the truest feelings and reminds us that even foolish thoughts can hide genuine care.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

One can say everything best over a meal.

Image

Things are achieved when they are well begun.

Image

A good solid bit of work lasts.

Image

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

Image

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.

Image

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

Image

Go forward with joyful confidence.

Image

“Love once, love always”

Image

“I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.”

Image

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Image

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

Image

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Image

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

Image

It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.

Image

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Image

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

Image

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another…

Image

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and…

Image

Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

Image

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out…

Image

“I should never like scolding any one else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband.”

Image

“There is a power in the direct glance of a sincere and loving human soul, which will do more to dissipate prejudice…

Image

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

Image

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

Image

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you…

Image

“Love is natural; but surely pity and faithfulness and memory are natural too. And they would live in me still, and punish…

Image

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and…

Image

“There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look…

Image

Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours…

Image

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and…

Image

How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love?…

Image

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you…

Image

“Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she…

Image

“For then, the very hardship, and the sorrow, and the blindness, and the sin I have beheld and been ready to weep…

Image

“Since you think it my duty, Mr. Farebrother, I will tell you that I have too strong a feeling for Fred to…

Image

The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and…

Image

“It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling if we won nothing but our old selves at…

Image

“Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacing are swung--are scarcely perceptible; momentary touches of…

Image

“He seemed to weave, like the spider, from pure impulse, without reflection. Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to…

Image

“A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of…

Image

Other authors on Love

More by George Eliot

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on…

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from…

“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…

“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out…

“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex…

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

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure…

“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells…

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial…

“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”

even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt…