George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

57 Famous Quotes by George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Traveling Quotes
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
“No great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty.”
Greatness Quotes
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I, 56th line from end)
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Greatness Quotes
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I, 56th line from end)
“We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.”
Fear Quotes
Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. VII, ch. V)
“When you see fair hair Be pitiful.”
Hair Quotes
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. IV)
“The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.”
Footsteps Quotes
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III)
“When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime, Because the one so near the other is.”
Unity Quotes
Source: Brother and Sister (pt. I, st. 1)
“And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily. Command was service; humblest service done By willing and discerning souls was glory.”
Duty Quotes
Source: Agatha
“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.”
Duty Quotes
Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. VI, ch. XLVI)
“A man's a man, But when you see a king, you see the work Of many thousand men.”
Royalty Quotes
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
“What makes like dreary is the want of motive.”
Motive Quotes
Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. VIII, ch. LXV)
“I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God.”
Sin Quotes
Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. VI, ch. XIV)
“The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.”
Temptation Quotes
Source: Felix Holt (ch. XLVII)
“Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us.”
Joy Quotes
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III)
“There are . . . robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.”
Slander Quotes
Source: Felix Holt (introduction)
“Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.”
Gossip Quotes
Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. II, ch. XIII)
“Kisses honeyed by oblivion.”
Kisses Quotes
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III, l. 251 from end of bk.)
“Where you have friends you should not go to inns.”
Inns Quotes
Source: Agatha
“But certain winds will make men's temper bad.”
Wind Quotes
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
“Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.”
Wind Quotes
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
“I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.”
Conceit Quotes
Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. V, ch. IV)
“As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.”
Luck Quotes
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
Distrust Quotes
Source: Middlemarch (bk. V, ch. XLIV)
“There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder.”
Hatred Quotes
Source: Felix Holt (introduction)
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
Jealousy Quotes
Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. I, ch. X)