There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

George Eliot

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

George Eliot

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

George Eliot

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

George Eliot

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

George Eliot

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

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

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

George Eliot

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

George Eliot

I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.

George Eliot

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

George Eliot

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

George Eliot

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

George Eliot