1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Sweet Truth is a queen proud and mighty-- Her throne is in heaven above.

May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.