Top 129 Quotes by George Eliot

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.

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

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

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

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

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

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.