1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

It is never to late to be what you might have been

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

That big muscular frame of his held plenty of animal courage, but helped him to no decision when the dangers to be braved were such as could neither be knocked down nor throttled.

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to