1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards

A man is seldom ashamed of feeling that he cannot love a woman so well when he sees a certain greatness in her: nature having intended greatness for men.

A woman, let her be good as she may, has got to put up with the life her husband makes for her.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life, to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring; when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.

Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety.

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities—a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces—a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.