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“It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.”

George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.”

George Eliot book The Lifted Veil

Source: The Lifted Veil

“A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

First lines.
Source: Middlemarch (1871)

“She hates everything that is not what she longs for.”

George Eliot book Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“I protest against any absolute conclusion.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Variant: What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
Source: Middlemarch (1871)

“A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.”

George Eliot book Silas Marner

Source: Silas Marner

“Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.”

George Eliot book Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“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 kind. 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.”

George Eliot

Letter to Georgiana Burne-Jones, wife of the artist Edward Burne-Jones (1875)

“It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.”

George Eliot book Silas Marner

Source: Silas Marner

“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 book Daniel Deronda

Book 3, Ch. 24
Source: Daniel Deronda (1876)

“All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.”

George Eliot book Daniel Deronda

Source: Daniel Deronda

“I am not quite sure whether clever men ever dance.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Middlemarch