1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant ...

... we are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom ...

Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch