1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.

Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Thee--see Thee weeping over them, and saying, "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life"--see Thee hanging on the cross and saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"--see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.