1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

In every parting there is an image of death.

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.

There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.

It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.