1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.

Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed morning sunlight, which comes to us like a bright-winged angel beckoning us to quit the old path of vanity that stretches its dreary length behind us.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.