1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

Grant folly’s prayers that hinder folly’s wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.

In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother’s knee.

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women’s coiffure and the favorite love-stories in prose and verse.

I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.

Oh, child, men’s men: gentle or simple, they’re much of a muchness...

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive – when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.