Source: Middlemarch
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Famous George Eliot Quotes
Source: Middlemarch
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.”
Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss
Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot
Source: Daniel Deronda
Source: Romola: Top Novelist Focus
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical
Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
Source: The Works of George Eliot in Twelve Volumes: Scenes of clerical life - Life of George Eliot
“Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.”
Source: Romola
Source: George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals
Source: Middlemarch - A Study of Provincial Life -
“But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.”
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
“Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
Source: Daniel Deronda
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical
“Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life
“I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus
“The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.”
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus
“Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“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.”
“What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.”
Source: Daniel Deronda
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot