1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

What is opportunity to a man who can't use it.