1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

The bow always strung ... will not do.

There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

Wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.