Quote

Speech may be barren but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

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
Barren
Eggs
Suppose
Ridiculous
Speech
Silence
May
Always
Brooding

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
George Eliot
Image
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
George Eliot
Image
Heaven help us, said the old religion the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
George Eliot
Image
It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.
George Eliot
Image
A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it.
George Eliot
Image
Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?
George Eliot
Image
Quarrel? Nonsense we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
George Eliot
Image
Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.
George Eliot
Image
Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.
George Eliot
Image
There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.
George Eliot
Image
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
George Eliot
Image
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
George Eliot
Image
When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.
George Eliot
Image
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
George Eliot
Image
To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.
George Eliot
Image
The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.
George Eliot
Image
Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
George Eliot
Image
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George Eliot
Image
There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.
George Eliot
Image
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
George Eliot