Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
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Famous George Eliot Quotes
Source: Adam Bede
Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus
“The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life
Source: Life and letters
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
Source: The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851
“bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Eliot
“There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: The Spanish gypsy
Source: Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus
“Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals
“Particular lies may speak a general truth.”
Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot
“The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.”
Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot
“I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
Source: The George Eliot Letters: 1862-1868
Source: Life and letters
Source: The George Eliot Letters: 1874-1877
“There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: The George Eliot Letters: 1859-1861
“The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot