1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends -- they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

If you sit down at set of sun and count the acts that you have done, and, counting, find one self-denying deed, one word that eased the heart of him who heard–one glance most kind, that fell like sunshine where it went–then you may count that day well spent.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage in this world.

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

We are all very much alike when we are in our first love.

Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and coloured by a diffused thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge.