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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.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
Daniel Deronda (1876), Book 3, Ch. 24
- Emotion
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
Adam Bede (1859)
- Beauty
- Emotion
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book II: Old and Young, Chapter XXIn context
- Emotion
It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
Silas Marner (1861), Part I, Chapter XIIIn context
- Emotion
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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