1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.