Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
Here is a compilation of George Eliot Quotes:
1. Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
2. Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
3. It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
4. It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
5. The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
6. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
7. If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
8. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
9. There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
10. Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
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