George Eliot Quotes

• I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Loved

• It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Roses, More, Plant

• Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Dead

• All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Dad, Learning

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

  George Eliot

  Topics in Anger

• How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he’s chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him, wearing it at best with a resignation which is chiefly supported by comparison.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Age

• An age at which many men are not quite common – at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Age, Funny

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

  George Eliot

  Tags in Elections

• It’s them that takes advantage that gets advantage i’ this world.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Facts, Ignorance

• Adventure is not outside a man; it is within

  George Eliot

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Adventure

• What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

  George Eliot

  Topics in Friendship, Life

  Tags in Difficult, Less

• It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don’t give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Kindness, Sacrifice, Self Respect, Service

• Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actors And Acting, Play, Ideas

• Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Beginning

• What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

  George Eliot

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Loneliness

• Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Lying

• It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Feeling, Communication

• The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one’s life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Business, Life

  Tags in Importance

• Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds

  George Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves, Deeds

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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