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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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

George Eliot

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

George Eliot

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

George Eliot

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

George Eliot

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

George Eliot

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

George Eliot

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

George Eliot

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

George Eliot

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

George Eliot
Smile quotes by George Eliot, UberQuotes

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

George Eliot

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

George Eliot

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

George Eliot

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

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