1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

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

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.