1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.