1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient

It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

Man cannot choose his duties.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.

I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.