1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation ...

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes ...

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.