George Eliot Quotes

Abroad, that large home of ruined reputations. - George Eliot

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. - George Eliot

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt. - George Eliot

A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. - George Eliot

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills. - George Eliot

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side. - George Eliot

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. - George Eliot

A man will tell you that he has worked in a mine for forty years unhurt by an accident as a reason why he should apprehend no danger, though the roof is beginning to sink . . . - George Eliot

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

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