1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.