Source: Adam Bede
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Famous George Eliot Quotes
Source: Adam Bede
Source: Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.”
“There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.”
“As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.”
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.”
Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot
Source: Adam Bede
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.”
Source: Romola: Top Novelist Focus
“Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.”
Source: Daniel Deronda
Source: Adam Bede
“No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.”
“What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?”
Source: The Sad Fortunes Of The Reverend Amos Barton
“No man can be wise on an empty stomach.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot
“There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”
Source: Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2
Source: Middlemarch
“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus
“Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“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)
“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: Felix Holt, The Radical
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical