George Eliot

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

George Eliot

What makes life dreary is the want of motive.

George Eliot

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag – signal which may mean either of two contradictories.

George Eliot

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

George Eliot

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

George Eliot

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

George Eliot

A foreman, if he’s got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner. I wouldn’t give a penny for a man as ‘ud drive a nail in slack because he didn’t get extra pay for it.

George Eliot

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

George Eliot

A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?

George Eliot