1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.