All George Eliot Quotes
- Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. Along
- What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. Flower
- That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a… Action
- I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And… Anyone
- It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at… Acts
- Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all. All
- 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 own little core… Any
- There is a great deal of unmapped country within us. Ability
- To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all. All
- There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river… Cloud
- A good horse makes short miles. Good
- For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul… Assured
- Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain… Alternate
- 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio. Antonio
- One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good. Applies
- There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing… Another Name
- Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it? Afar
- Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike. Dislike
- Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach… Any
- A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is… Exalts
- I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light… All
- Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we… Build
- Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. Communicate
- Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and… According
- In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense… Any