1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

That is a way of speaking--it is not acted upon, it is not real," said Gwendolen, bitterly. "You admire Miss Lapidoth because you think herblameless, perfect. And you know you would despise a woman who had donesomething you thought very wrong.""That would depend entirely upon her own view of what she had done," saidDeronda.

That is a way of speaking--it is not acted upon, it is not real," saidGwendolen, bitterly. "You admire Miss Lapidoth because you think herblameless, perfect. And you know you would despise a woman who had donesomething you thought very wrong.""That would depend entirely upon her own view of what she had done," saidDeronda.

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.

Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy. As if a man could choose not only his wife but his wife's husband!

A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would turn into a chime if you went back upon them.

In spite of his mildness and timidity in reproving, every one about him knew that on the exceptional occasions when he chose, he was absolute. He never, indeed, chose to be absolute except on some one else’s behalf.

What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.