1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.

You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.