All George Eliot Quotes
- Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight. Daylight
- College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em. Bladder
- I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you. Always Felt
- In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in. Look
- Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination… Best Friend
- It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit… Change
- Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite… Affection
- Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before… Any
- The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. Arrogance
- If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me… Better
- I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now. All
- History repeats itself. History
- To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep. Days
- Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile. Ascertained
- Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs. Cobwebs
- There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived… All
- It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born… Amidst
- The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer. Colour
- There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil… Air
- Our thoughts are often worse than we are. Funny
- Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future. Future
- The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a… Active
- No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. Art
- I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to… Awkward
- You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried… Called