George Eliot

Literature English 1819 – 1880 97 quotes

The pen name of Mary Ann Evans, an English novelist, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

Quotes by George Eliot

The human heart is a labyrinth of winding passages.

The Mill on the Floss 1860

The highest form of wisdom is kindness.

Middlemarch 1872

The only true beauty is inner beauty.

Middlemarch 1872

The world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Middlemarch 1872

The only thing that matters in life is love.

Middlemarch 1872

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

Middlemarch 1872

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Middlemarch 1872

The only true freedom is freedom from fear.

Middlemarch 1872

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Middlemarch 1872

The only way to do great things is to be great.

Middlemarch 1872

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of hope and purpose.

Middlemarch 1871

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

The Mill on the Floss 1859

In every parting there is an image of death.

The Mill on the Floss 1859

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

The Mill on the Floss 1859

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.

Daniel Deronda 1876

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

Middlemarch 1871

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

Middlemarch 1871

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery of being a great deal with one's own mind alone.

Middlemarch 1871

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it.

Essays 1856

The world is full of suffering, but it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Middlemarch 1871