1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

Joy is the best of wine.

Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.

Go forward with joyful confidence.