1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone.

Animals are such agreeable friends.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me