Quotes by George Eliot

About George Eliot:

Mary Ann Evans is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.
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All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

George Eliot

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

George Eliot

In every parting there is an image of death.

George Eliot

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

George Eliot

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

George Eliot

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

George Eliot

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

George Eliot

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

George Eliot

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.

George Eliot

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

George Eliot

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot

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

George Eliot

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

George Eliot

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.

George Eliot

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

George Eliot

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

George Eliot

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

George Eliot

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

George Eliot

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

George Eliot

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

George Eliot

Author Bio

  • NameGeorge Eliot
  • DescriptionEnglish novelist, journalist and translator
  • AliasesMary Anne Evans; Mary Ann Evans; Marian Evans
  • BornNovember 22, 1819
  • DiedDecember 22, 1880
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionNovelist; Translator; Philosopher; Writer; Poet
  • WorksThe Mill On The Floss; Silas Marner; Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda