George Eliot Quotes

`Character,' says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - `character is destiny.' - George Eliot

[T]here is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. . . . It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle. . . - George Eliot

[I]t is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelingsmuch harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. - George Eliot

. . . you know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation. - George Eliot

. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . . - George Eliot

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