Source: Middlemarch
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Famous George Eliot Quotes
“bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Eliot
Source: The Journals of George Eliot
“I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.”
Source: Middlemarch
“An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.”
Source: Works of George Eliot
“The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.”
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi
Source: Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2
“No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
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
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
“The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.”
“In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
Source: Daniel Deronda (丹尼爾的半生緣)
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.”
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.”
Source: Daniel Deronda
“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
“Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“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
“There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.”
“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: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Daniel Deronda
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus