Famously Said Random quote

George Eliot — Portrait after a picture by replica by François D’Albert Durade (1804–1886) (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

George Eliot

English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist

1819–1880

46 quotes, most often on Emotion, Pride and Hope.

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.
Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book II: Old and Young, Chapter XVIn context
- Character
- Pride
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book IV: Three Love Problems, Chapter XLIIIn context
- Character
There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.
Middlemarch (1871–1872), FinaleIn context
- Character

Most quoted

C. S. Lewis1898–1963151 quotes

Mark Twain1835–1910151 quotes

Benjamin Franklin1706–179098 quotes

Martin Luther King Jr.1929–196884 quotes

Albert Einstein1879–195595 quotes

Dave Barryborn 1947100 quotes