Quotations From GEORGE ELIOT [MARY ANN (OR MARIAN) EVANS]

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• 31.

  Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist, editor. Daniel Deronda, in Daniel Deronda, bk. 5, ch. 36 (1876).
  
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• 32.

  But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist, editor. Middlemarch, bk. 5, ch. 51 (1871). Real name: Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans.
  
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• 33.

  Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist, editor. Deronda's mother, in Daniel Deronda, bk. 7, ch. 51 (1876). Speaking of society's expectations of women; Eliot's real name is Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans.
  
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• 34.

  ... the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 9 (1871-1872).
• 35.

  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 [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist, editor. Deronda's mother, in Daniel Deronda, bk. 7, ch. 51 (1874-1876).
  
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• 36.

  ... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 38 (1871-1872).
• 37.

  Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist, editor. Graf Dornberg, in Armgart, sc. 2 (1871).
  
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• 38.

  She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist, editor. Middlemarch, bk. 8, ch. 80 (1871). Of Dorothea Brooke.
  
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• 39.

  Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Impressions of Theophrastus Such, ch. 4 (1879).
• 40.

  ... the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 38 (1871-1872).
  
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