Quotes from George Eliot
It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.
- George Eliot
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
- George Eliot
Those who trust us educate us.
- George Eliot
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
- George Eliot
Love supreme defies all sophistry.
- George Eliot
Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.
- George Eliot
A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.
- George Eliot
Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
- George Eliot
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
- George Eliot
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
- George Eliot
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
- George Eliot
An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.
- George Eliot