“It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.”
Source: Middlemarch
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Famous George Eliot Quotes
“I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.”
Source: Daniel Deronda
“If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.”
Source: Adam Bede
“What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?”
Source: The Sad Fortunes Of The Reverend Amos Barton
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
Source: Daniel Deronda
Source: Works of George Eliot ...: Daniel Deronda
Source: Daniel Deronda
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“No man can be wise on an empty stomach.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot
“There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
Source: Theophrastus Such
“'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.”
“We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.”
Source: The Spanish gypsy
“Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me”
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.”
Source: The Legend of Jubal: And Other Poems
“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
“Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.”
“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”
Source: Romola
Source: The Works of George Eliot
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life