Beautiful Quote by George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

“[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…

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot