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George Eliot Quotes

George Eliot quotes

British Author, Writer November 22, 1819 – December 22, 1880

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George Eliot quote: "No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. George Eliot
He once calledher his basil plant; and when she asked for an explanation, said that basil was a plant which had flourished wonderfully ona murdered man's brains. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "She felt that she enjoyed it [horseback riding] in a pagan,..."
She felt that she enjoyed it [horseback riding] in a pagan, sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it. George Eliot
There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet. George Eliot
After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any..."
Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and..."
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any..."
Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images..."
We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire. George Eliot
Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; theyknow all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence. George Eliot
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by..."
Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions! George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as..."
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves George Eliot
Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living. George Eliot
George Eliot quote: "Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do..."
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins. George Eliot

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