Top 129 Quotes by George Eliot

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

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

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

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

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.