Quote

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

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
Human
Shuts
Humans
Advancement
Without
London
Believe
Glad
Life
Sight
Seeing
Within
Business
Environs

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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
Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.
George Eliot
Image
The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.
George Eliot
Image
I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
George Eliot
Image
If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.
George Eliot
Image
Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
George Eliot
Image
I love words they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.
George Eliot
Image
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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
It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.
George Eliot
Image
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot
Image
Hear Everything and judge for yourself
George Eliot
Image
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.
George Eliot
Image
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.
George Eliot
Image
This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.
George Eliot
Image
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.
George Eliot
Image
Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
George Eliot
Image
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
George Eliot
Image
Even success needs its consolations.
George Eliot