But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. - George Eliot. View more images...
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. - George Eliot. View more images...
Animals are such agreeable friends- they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot. View more images...
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. - George Eliot. View more images...
Women know no perfect love:
Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong;
Man clings because the being whom he loves
Is weak and needs him. - George Eliot. View more images...
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. - George Eliot. View more images...
What makes life dreary is want of motive. - George Eliot. View more images...
What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? - George Eliot. View more images...
It is never too late to be who you might have been. - George Eliot. View more images...
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? - George Eliot. View more images...
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. - George Eliot. View more images...
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. - George Eliot. View more images...
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. - George Eliot. View more images...
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. - George Eliot. View more images...
But is it what we love, or how we love,
That makes true good? - George Eliot. View more images...