1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.

A good horse makes short miles.

All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.