1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given to us to guide our own steps. We are like the foot soldiers, who hear nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle they are in, but hear plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.