1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

Where you have friends you should not go to inns.

There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.

We cannot reform our forefathers.

I'm more and more impressed with the duty of finding happiness

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.