1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Even success needs its consolations.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.