1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.

... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.