George Eliot quotes

George Eliot was an English novelist, poet, and journalist, celebrated for her insightful works such as "Middlemarch" and "Silas Marner." Her real name was Mary Ann Evans, and she adopted a male pen name to ensure her writings were taken seriously. She remains a towering figure in Victorian literature, known for her psychological depth and realism. Here are 538 of her quotes:

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

George Eliot

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

George Eliot

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand - ...

George Eliot

I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

George Eliot

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

George Eliot

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

George Eliot

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

George Eliot

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

George Eliot

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

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

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Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

George Eliot

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

George Eliot

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

George Eliot

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

George Eliot