Quote

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

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
Obligation
Scientific
Conscience
Company
Science
Debasing
Money
Respects
Alas
Selfish

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot
Image
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
George Eliot
Image
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
George Eliot
Image
Breed is stronger than pasture.
George Eliot
Image
To the old, sorrow is sorrow to the young, it is despair.
George Eliot
Image
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot
Image
I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
George Eliot
Image
Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
George Eliot
Image
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George Eliot
Image
Perhaps there is no time in a summer's day more cheering, than when the warmth of the sun is just beginning to triumph over the freshness of the morning--when there is just a lingering hint of early coolness to keep off languor under the delicious influence of warmth.
George Eliot
Image
Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
George Eliot
Image
Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.
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
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.
George Eliot
Image
Correct English is the slang of prigs.
George Eliot
Image
Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.
George Eliot
Image
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.
George Eliot
Image
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot
Image
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
George Eliot
Image
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
George Eliot