George Eliot Quotes

“Exiles notoriously feed much on hopes, and are unlikely to stay in banishment unless they are obliged.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:hope

“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:memory

“For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world...”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:youth ambition

“Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. At other times one is conscious of carrying a weight.”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

topic:music

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:music poetry

“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:past present

“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:science

“Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

topic:desire

“A man's mind—what there is of it—has always the advantage of being masculine,—as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,—and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:ignorance

“we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive.”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

topic:living

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