1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .

Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

Appearances have very little to do with happiness.