1,496 Quotes by George Eliot

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiacal vision which only impelled them, and is left farther and farther behind, vanishing forever even out of hope in the moment which is called success.

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate...

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.