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26 Great Quotes By George Eliot On Life, Love, Memories And Beginnings

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Famous As: Author and Novelist

Born On: November 22, 1819

Died On: December 22, 1880

Born In: Warwickshire, England

Died At Age: 61

George Eliot was an illustrious and prolific English poet, novelist, journalist and translator. She was considered to be one of the most eminent writers of the Victorian Era. Her thoughts, writings and books were renowned for their psychological insight and realism. Some of her famous works include, ‘Daniel Deronda’, ‘The Mill On The Floss’, ‘Adam Bede’, ‘Middlemarch’, ‘Silas Marner’ and various others. Born Mary Anne Evans, she used a male pseudonym in order to escape the stereotyping of women’s writing being restricted to light-hearted romances and to make sure that her works were taken earnestly. We have rounded some popular quotations and sayings by George Eliot which have been curated from the vast sea of her books, thoughts, writings, novels, poems, works and life. Take a look at the quotes and thoughts by George Eliot meanings, know, principle, silent, blessed, gardening, friends, adventure, hope, sad, truth, indifference, anger, jealousy and more which have a large readership and are quoted frequently.

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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Love
George Elliot

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
Love
George Elliot

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
Life Past
George Elliot

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
George Elliot

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Elliot

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
Love
George Elliot

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
George Elliot

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
Beautiful
George Elliot

There are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Elliot

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 Elliot

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
George Elliot

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.
Hope
George Elliot

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
George Elliot

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
Life
George Elliot

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George Elliot

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
Love Friends
George Elliot

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
George Elliot

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
Love
George Elliot

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Death Never
George Elliot

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Elliot