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George Eliot Quotes

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.


Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.


I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.


Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.


Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.


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

Love Quotes

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.


Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.


Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Love Quotes

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.


A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.


For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities --a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces --a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

Quotable Quotes

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.


Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans --which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.


You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.