1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.

Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.

It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

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

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.