Quotes from George Eliot
In every parting there is an image of death.
- George Eliot
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
- George Eliot
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
- George Eliot
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
- George Eliot
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
- George Eliot
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.
- George Eliot
In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.
- George Eliot
I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.
- George Eliot
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.
- George Eliot
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
- George Eliot
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
- George Eliot
Education is an asset no man can take away.
- George Eliot