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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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

George Eliot

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

George Eliot

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

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

George Eliot

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

George Eliot

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

George Eliot

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

George Eliot

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

George Eliot

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

George Eliot

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

George Eliot

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

George Eliot

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

George Eliot

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

George Eliot

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

George Eliot

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

George Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

George Eliot

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

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