1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

Starting a long way off the true point by loops and zigags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury.

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.