1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

My dear Mrs Casaubon," said Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardour, "character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.""Then it may be rescued and healed," said Dorothea.

The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it oftensubsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.