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 keenest of all delights for the most part is to have a little bit of one's own way.
Prophet, or poet, or quack, it is alike to the world, which knows not the voice of the eternal.
I have felt that my life has been too swiftly ripened.
The first impulse of conscience is not to do, but to learn.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life, for the time.
The dead level of provincial existence.
A difference of lot, a difference of memories, a difference of mode of feeling.
I have the heartache for you, Mr. Casaubon.
The men who have had the most to give to the world have been those who gave themselves.
It was a time when ignorance was every man's refuge and power.
The rich often envy the poor for the same reason that the poor envy the rich.
One can't learn everything at once.
The happiest torment is to be loved and not to love.
I expect to do more good by stimulating thought than by any direct teaching.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
In books there is no perfume, but a subtle perfume escapes from the binding.
The mysterious paths of our life cannot always be foreseen.