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Famous George Eliot Quotes
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
“Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.”
Source: The Complete Novels of George Eliot: Adam Bede + The Lifted Veil + The Mill on the Floss + Silas Marner + Romola + Brother Jacob + Felix Holt the Radical + Middlemarch + Daniel Deronda
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus
“Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.”
Source: The Spanish gypsy
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.”
Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot
“When you see fair hair Be pitiful.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Eliot
Source: Poems: Together with Brother Jacob and The Lifted Veil
Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?”
Source: Poems
“Where you have friends you should not go to inns.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.”
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“What if my words Were meant for deeds.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Our growing thought Makes growing revelation.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
Source: The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851
Source: The Essays of George Eliot
Source: The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus
“Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.”
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“Better a false belief than no belief at all.”
Source: Daniel Deronda
“A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.”
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical
“It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.”
“Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.”
Source: Romola
“Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.”
Source: The Spanish gypsy
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot