George Eliot Quotes & Quotations

George Eliot Quotes

» Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

» There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

» Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

» For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

» No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

» One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

» To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

» Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

» In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

» It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

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