Quotes about George Eliot

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird...

#George Eliot

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to...

#George Eliot

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

#George Eliot

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we...

#George Eliot

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

#George Eliot

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in,...

#George Eliot

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and...

#George Eliot

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not...

#George Eliot

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

#George Eliot

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

#George Eliot

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

#George Eliot

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest...

#George Eliot