1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

A patronizing disposition always has it's meaner side.

The mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it.

The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another.

Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love that makes life and nature harmonize.

It is never too late to be what you might have been

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

It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to thin of being married soon...and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.