Quotes about George Eliot

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

#George Eliot

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

#George Eliot

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets,...

#George Eliot

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be...

#George Eliot

He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

#George Eliot

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of...

#George Eliot

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

#George Eliot

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

#George Eliot

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough...

#George Eliot

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

#George Eliot

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

#George Eliot

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

#George Eliot