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George Eliot

George Eliot

English writer and poet

Lived from: 1819 - 1880

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 22 november 1819 Died: 22 december 1880

  • The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
  • Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
  • To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
  • Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
  • That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
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  • It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
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  • Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
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  • A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
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  • Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
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  • But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
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  • For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
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  • No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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  • There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
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  • Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
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  • Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
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What are the most famous quotes from George Eliot?

The two most famous quotes from George Eliot are:

  • "It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care."
  • "Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."

When did George Eliot live?

George Eliot was born in 1819 and died in the year 1880.