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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.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
The Mill on the Floss (1860)In context
- Children
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child’s.
Silas Marner (1861), Part I, Chapter XIVIn context
- Children
- Hope
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.
The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book First: Boy and Girl, Chapter VIn context
- Children
- Emotion

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