George Eliot Quotes

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:life difficulty

“Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth”

― George Eliot, Adam Bede

topic:truth difficulty

“the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:truth

“These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

topic:time sorrow

“Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:women politics

“And, of course, men know best about everything, except what women know better.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:women knowledge men

“Confound you handsome young fellows! you think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:women beauty

“I said, let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler: but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.”

― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

topic:knowledge hope poverty

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes...”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:knowledge feeling poetry

“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

topic:knowledge art

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