“Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
Source: Daniel Deronda (丹尼爾的半生緣)
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Famous George Eliot Quotes
“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.”
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.”
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.”
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.”
Source: Daniel Deronda
“We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.”
Source: Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus
Source: Daniel Deronda
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
“Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.”
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus
“Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
Source: Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus
“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.”
Source: Silas Marner: Literary Touchstone Edition
“Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.”
“That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
“The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.”
Source: Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
“There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.”
“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”
“We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.”
“What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.”
Source: Daniel Deronda
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.”
Source: Daniel Deronda
Source: Middlemarch
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Daniel Deronda
Source: Middlemarch
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.”
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot