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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.

I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
The Mill on the Floss (1860)In context
- Pride
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return …
Daniel Deronda (1876)
- Love
- Pride
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts⁠—not to hurt others.
Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book I: Miss Brooke, Chapter VIIn context
- Pride
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

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