George Eliot, The Mill On The Floss Quotes

Don't judge a book by its cover

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

Don't judge a book by its cover.

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.