The best Quotes by George Eliot

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

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

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

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

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

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

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

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

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

It's never too late to be, who you might have been.

To attract love, we run the risk of losing it.

Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against because they read novels that tell them these tricks.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

London. The beating heart of England.

There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air.

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather and autumn's best of cheer.

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

A mother's love is the ultimate comfort.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

My son Jack once said to me, "Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?"
I said, "I don't care as long as they're laughing."

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

...yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

There's no death for those who don't fear it.

Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age.

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

You are going to lose people in your life.
And I realize that no matter how much you spent with them,
or how much you appreciated them and told them so,
it will never seem like it was enough.

It is not that we are not sad for his passing. But in celebrating life, he shall remain with us forever. What better way to strengthen the bonds of the family that remains, than celebrating all who came before?

If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever.

You can own the Earth and still
All you'll own is Earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind

God never made no difference between black, white, blue, pink or green. People is people, y'know. That's the message we try to spread.

The only time that we are allowed to look down upon others: when we are offering to help them up.