Quotes by George Eliot

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast...

#Death And Dying, #Time, #Work

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort...

#Stupidity

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as...

#Kindness

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

#Belief

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and...

#Famous Love, #Love

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities

#Ignorance

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen...

#Ignorance

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

#Hearing, #Judgement

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am...

#Love, #Sweet Love

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

#George Eliot

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling...

#George Eliot

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

#George Eliot