George Eliot
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 highest form of wisdom is kindness.
The only true beauty is inner beauty.
The world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
The only thing that matters in life is love.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The only true freedom is freedom from fear.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The only way to do great things is to be great.
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of hope and purpose.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
In every parting there is an image of death.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery of being a great deal with one's own mind alone.
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it.
The world is full of suffering, but it is also full of the overcoming of it.