“When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
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Famous George Eliot Quotes
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“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: Four Novels of George Eliot
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.”
Source: Romola
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
Source: The Mill on the Floss
Source: Adam Bede
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Adam Bede
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.”
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
“Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.”
Source: Middlemarch
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!”
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
Source: George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
Source: Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus
“Things are achieved when they are well begun.”
Source: The Spanish gypsy
“One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.”
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus
Source: Adam Bede
Source: Middlemarch, Volume III
Source: Daniel Deronda
“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: Complete Works Of George Eliot