Quotes by George Eliot

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

#George Eliot

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

#Better Than You

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

#George Eliot

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought...

#George Eliot

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

#George Eliot

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable...

#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

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

#George Eliot