1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.

Education is an asset no man can take away.

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.

If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.