1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.

Brothers are so unpleasant.

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

When you see fair hair Be pitiful.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.

the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.