Quotes by George Eliot

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Im proof against that word failure. Ive seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

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

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Life began with waking up and loving my mothers face.

And when a womans will is as strong as the mans who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

In every parting there is an image of death.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Im not denyin the women are foolish. God Almighty made em to match the men.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.