Quotes by George Eliot

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

#Funerals

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end...

#Family, #Fathers

The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another

#Fulfilment

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who...

#Gossip

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

#Choice, #Growth

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as...

#Grief

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and...

#Habit

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

#Jealousy

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

#Jokes

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

#Joy, #Self-love

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either...

#Language

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

#Mothers