1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten yourself in straining your eyes after the mounting lark, or in wandering through the still lanes when the fresh-opened blossoms fill them with a sacred silent beauty like that of fretted aisles, where would be the use of my descriptive catalogue?

I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!

The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.