George Eliot Quotes

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

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• Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

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• There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

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• Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.

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• Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

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• A man is seldom ashamed of feeling that he cannot love a woman so well when he sees a certain greatness in her: nature having intended greatness for men.

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• It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

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• A woman, let her be as good as she may, has got to put up with the life her husband makes for her.

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• We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind.

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• If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

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• To point out other people’s errors was a duty that Mr Bulstrode rarely shrank from.

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• Any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbour.

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• Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

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• Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

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• He said he should prefer not to know the sources of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting-grounds for the poetic imagination.

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• A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

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• Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

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• There’s many a one who would be idle if hunger didn’t pinch him; but the stomach sets us to work.

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• A woman can hardly ever choose…she is dependent on what happens to her. She must take meaner things, because only meaner things are within her reach.

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• Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

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George Eliot (181)

Birth:	22nd November, 1819
Death:	22nd December, 1880
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Translator

About

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. She was an English novelist and translator. She wrote several novels include: Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. In fact, her first major literary work was an English translation of Strauss's The Life of Jesus, which she completed after it had been left incomplete by another member of the "Rosehill Circle".

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