Quotes by George Eliot

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

#George Eliot

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

#George Eliot

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

#George Eliot

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

#George Eliot

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

#George Eliot

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

#George Eliot

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

#George Eliot

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

#George Eliot

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

#George Eliot

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

#George Eliot

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are...

#Brides

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

#George Eliot