Quotes By Author: George Eliot

“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”

“Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly — something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.”

“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”

“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.”

“The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.”

“Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.’I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl’s life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her… I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.”

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

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”