1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.