68 quotes by George Eliot

“A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.” — George Eliot

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“Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.” — George Eliot

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“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.” — George Eliot

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“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.” — George Eliot

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“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.” — George Eliot

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“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.” — George Eliot

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“There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.” — George Eliot

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“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.” — George Eliot

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“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.” — George Eliot

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“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.” — George Eliot

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“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” — George Eliot

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“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.” — George Eliot

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“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.” — George Eliot

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“And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.” — George Eliot

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“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.” — George Eliot

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“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.” — George Eliot

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“In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.” — George Eliot

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“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.” — George Eliot

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“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.” — George Eliot

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“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.” — George Eliot

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“The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.” — George Eliot

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“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.” — George Eliot

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“All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.” — George Eliot

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“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.” — George Eliot

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“In every parting there is an image of death.” — George Eliot

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