Love Quotes by George Eliot

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

— George Eliot

Teach love, for that is what you are.

— George Eliot

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

— George Eliot

“Love once, love always”

— George Eliot

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

— George Eliot

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

— George Eliot

Things are achieved when they are well begun.

— George Eliot

A good solid bit of work lasts.

— George Eliot

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

— George Eliot

But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?

— George Eliot

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

— George Eliot

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

— George Eliot

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

— George Eliot

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

— George Eliot

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us…

— George Eliot

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his…

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is…

— George Eliot

I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.

— George Eliot

Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion…

— George Eliot

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and…

— George Eliot

“In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those…

— George Eliot

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one…

— George Eliot

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's…

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

“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…

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

“Romanticism, which has helped to fill some dull blanks with love and knowledge, had not yet penetrated the times with its leaven…

— George Eliot

“I am not at all sure that the majority of the human race have not been ugly, and even among those "lords…

— George Eliot

“It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feeling; but then, such feelings continually come across the ties…

— George Eliot

What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our…

— George Eliot