George Eliot Quotes

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
George Eliot

Feeling, Done, Away

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
George Eliot

Trying, Sure, Pregnant

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot

Love, Parting, Agony

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
George Eliot

Happiness, Freedom, Perfect

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
George Eliot

Great, Whatever, Ourselves

Breed is stronger than pasture.
George Eliot

Stronger, Breed, Pasture

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot

Painful, Duty, Apt

Consequences are unpitying.
George Eliot

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
George Eliot

Feeling, Against, Security

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot

Love, Evil, Effort

There are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Eliot

Fear, Defeat, Worse

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
George Eliot

Happiness, Heart, Woman

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

Dad, End, Father

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George Eliot

Soul, Belief, Accepting

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
George Eliot

Woman, Same, Else

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot

Truth, Difficult, Easy

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot

Him, Thought, Sun

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
George Eliot

Future, Past, Desire

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
George Eliot

Women, Home, Stay

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
George Eliot

Nature, Reason, Private

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot

Knowledge, Ignorance, Down

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot

Great, Done, Ask

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
George Eliot

Words, Fly, Wings

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George Eliot

History, Moving, Past

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George Eliot

Science, Keep, Conscience

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: November 22, 1819

Died: December 22, 1880

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