1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.

In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.