Quotes about George Eliot

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful...

#George Eliot

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

#George Eliot

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling...

#George Eliot

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...

#George Eliot

Breed is stronger than pasture.

#George Eliot

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of...

#George Eliot

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern...

#George Eliot

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest...

#George Eliot

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

#George Eliot

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end...

#George Eliot

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

#George Eliot

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

#George Eliot