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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.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Middlemarch (1871-72)In context
- Hope
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 to have recovered hope.
Adam Bede (1859)
- Hope
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.
Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book VI: The Widow and the Wife, Chapter LVIn context
- Hope
- Youth
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

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