“The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.”
Source: Works of George Eliot
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Famous George Eliot Quotes
Source: The Mill on the Floss: Top Novelist Focus
“The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.”
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus
“The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Middlemarch
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“There are many victories worse than a defeat.”
Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss
Source: Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi
“Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical
“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
Source: Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Middlemarch
“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
“All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.”
Source: Daniel Deronda Volume I EasyRead Edition
“Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
“No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”
“Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.”
Source: Adam Bede
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.”
Source: Daniel Deronda
“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.”
“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
Source: Daniel Deronda
“Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”
Source: Middlemarch
“The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.”
“I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.”
Source: Life and letters
“In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot