Quote

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

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
Life
Equivalent
Eras
Youth
Better
Something

More quotes by 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
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
George Eliot
Image
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot
Image
I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
George Eliot
Image
... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
George Eliot
Image
We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.
George Eliot
Image
Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.
George Eliot
Image
There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.
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
This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.
George Eliot
Image
I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.
George Eliot
Image
Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
George Eliot
Image
You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.
George Eliot
Image
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
George Eliot
Image
My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.
George Eliot
Image
What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.
George Eliot
Image
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
George Eliot
Image
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot
Image
Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more.
George Eliot
Image
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
George Eliot