1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

correct English is the slang of prigs ...

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man Whose nature multitudinously mixed-- Each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- Resists all easy gladness, all content Save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul Flooded with consciousness of good that is Finds life one bounteous answer.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.