Quotes By George Eliot

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

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.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

In every parting there is an image of death.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.