1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Take your sensibility and use it as a vision

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

... scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill ...

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.