Quotes by : George Eliot

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into....

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple....

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life—the life which has a seed of ennobling thought....

What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen....

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

Best friend my well-spring in the wilderness!

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams a shadow annihilates them.

It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose....

She had forgotten his faults as we forgetthe sorrows of our departed childhood.

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.....