1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

Who with repentance is not satisfied, is not of heaven, nor earth.

Tom's contemptuous conception of a girl included the attribute of being unfit to walk in dirty places.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle — solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth echo of an echo, or as the memory of hyacinths which once scented the darkness.

He loved also to think, "I did it!" And I believe the only people who are free from that weakness are those who have no work to call their own.

...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.