George Eliot Quotes

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite. - George Eliot

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. - George Eliot

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. - George Eliot

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable. - George Eliot

You are never too old to be what you might have been. - George Eliot

Wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions. - George Eliot

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it? - George Eliot

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavours and the tinglings of a merited shame. - George Eliot

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. - George Eliot

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