Quotes by : George Eliot

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed....

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

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.

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

Time like money is measured by our needs.

But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to....

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became....

Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded....

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