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Famous George Eliot Quotes
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: The Spanish gypsy
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Adam Bede
Source: Middlemarch
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.”
Source: Poems
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.”
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Appearances have very little to do with happiness.”
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....
Source: Life and letters
“to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.”
Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus
“Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.”
Source: Adam Bede
“I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.”
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
Source: The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus
“There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.”
Source: Adam Bede
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.”
Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot
“It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.”
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life
“We cannot reform our forefathers.”
Source: Adam Bede ... Tenth edition
“Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.”
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
Source: The Mill on the Floss
Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!”
Source: Romola
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger.”
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
“The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.”
Source: Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2
“History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.”
Source: Silas Marner, The lifted veil, and Brother Jacob. Scenes of clerical life
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: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Souls live on in perpetual echoes.”
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life