Quote

Breed is stronger than pasture.

George Eliot

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
Editor
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Translator
Writer
Mary Anne Evans
Mary Ann Evans
Marian Evans
Mary Anne Evans Cross
Mary Anne Cross
Pasture
Pastures
Ancestry
Breed
Stronger
Past

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.
George Eliot
Image
Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families it's the safe side for madness to dip on.
George Eliot
Image
Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.
George Eliot
Image
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
George Eliot
Image
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.
George Eliot
Image
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
George Eliot
Image
Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
George Eliot
Image
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George Eliot
Image
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
George Eliot
Image
A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.
George Eliot
Image
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
George Eliot
Image
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
George Eliot
Image
If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
George Eliot
Image
Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
George Eliot
Image
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
George Eliot
Image
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
George Eliot
Image
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
George Eliot
Image
The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.
George Eliot
Image
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George Eliot
Image
A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.
George Eliot