1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Love supreme defies all sophistry.

Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

One can say everything best over a meal.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?