George Eliot

I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.

George Eliot

I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.

George Eliot

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

George Eliot

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

George Eliot

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

George Eliot

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

George Eliot

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

George Eliot

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

George Eliot

In every parting there is an image of death.

George Eliot

In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

George Eliot