George Eliot Quotes About Marriage

• What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Relationship

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5884, Delphi Classics

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

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of
  silence is large enough beyond the grave.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Couple, Silence

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.615, 谷月社

• Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Sympathy, Relation

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1477, Delphi Classics

• Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Wedding, Sight

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.503, Wordsworth Editions

• That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Marriage, Distance

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3265, Delphi Classics

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

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Order, May

  'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 1, ch. 9

• When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Mind, Religion

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.218, Penguin

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