1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.