George Eliot

The best part of a woman’s love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.

George Eliot

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

George Eliot

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

George Eliot

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

George Eliot

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

George Eliot

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

George Eliot

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

George Eliot

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People’s lives and fortunes depend on them.

George Eliot