1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

It’s never too late to become what you might have been.

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

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

I thought the gentle sound had whispered true, thought the little heaven mine. Leaned to clutch the thing divine, and saw the blue wings melt within the blue!

Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

The farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

A woman's rank lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.