Quotes by 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

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

#George Eliot

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar...

#George Eliot

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

#George Eliot

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

#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