A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
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

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
George Eliot

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
George Eliot

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
George Eliot

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

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
George Eliot

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

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


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

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

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

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

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot

Breed is stronger than pasture.
George Eliot

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
George Eliot

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

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

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot