George Eliot

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

George Eliot

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

George Eliot

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

George Eliot

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

George Eliot

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

George Eliot

Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.

George Eliot

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

George Eliot

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

George Eliot

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

George Eliot

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

George Eliot