1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at once of filthy rags and the best damask...

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life—the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it—can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

Legal redress is imperfect satisfaction for having one’s head broken with a brickbat.

On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good grateful nature, the mere idea that a woman had a kindness towards him spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

It is just that I don’t know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs.