Consequences are unpitying.
George Eliot

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
George Eliot

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
George Eliot

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

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
George Eliot

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot

Excessive literary production is a social offense.
George Eliot

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot

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

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George Eliot

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
George Eliot

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
George Eliot

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
George Eliot

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
George Eliot

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
George Eliot

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot

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