1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Trouble's made us kin.

All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace.

How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.