George Eliot's quotes

About George Eliot

She was the brilliant mind behindMiddlemarch, crafting some of the most profound and psychologically deep novels of the Victorian era. Writing under a man's name, she championed realism and gave a powerful voice to the inner lives of her characters.

Quotes (65)

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

George Eliot 53

In every parting there is an image of death.

George Eliot 23

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

George Eliot 28

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

George Eliot 43

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the...

George Eliot 24

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...

George Eliot 30

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

George Eliot 27

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality...

George Eliot 32

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