Quote

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

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
Angry
Deities
Sorrow
Ghosts
Childhood
Sorrows
Deep
Dread
Hell
Satan
Full
Ghost
Whooping
Much
Sky
Cough
Atheism
Deity

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.
George Eliot
Image
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
Image
It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.
George Eliot
Image
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
George Eliot
Image
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
George Eliot
Image
All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.
George Eliot
Image
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
George Eliot
Image
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
George Eliot
Image
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
George Eliot
Image
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot
Image
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
George Eliot
Image
So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.
George Eliot
Image
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
George Eliot
Image
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
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
Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
George Eliot
Image
There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.
George Eliot
Image
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
George Eliot
Image
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
George Eliot
Image
There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.
George Eliot