George Eliot

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

George Eliot

Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

George Eliot

Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.

George Eliot

Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.

George Eliot

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

George Eliot

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.

George Eliot

Sympathetic people often don’t communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

George Eliot

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

George Eliot

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

George Eliot

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

George Eliot