1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.