1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Hearing a Fourth-of-July orator deliver the Declaration of Independence, a countryman exclaimed: 'He read it very well, but you can't make me believe he ever wrote it!'

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand. The angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

The days were longer then for time, like money, is measured by our needs, when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.

For there is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope.

You are lonely; I love you; I want you to consent to be my wife; I will wait, but I want you to promise that you will marry me--no one else.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome dubious eggs called possibilities.

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium

Oh, may I join the choir invisible / Of those immortal dead who live again / In minds made better by their presence; live