Top 129 Quotes by George Eliot

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

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.

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

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 recipe.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

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.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

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