George Eliot

English

About George Eliot

English novelist, poet and translator who wrote Middlemarch and Adam Bede under the pen name George Eliot.

Quotes by George Eliot

Character is not cut in marble; it is something living and changing.
George Eliot
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
Character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing.
George Eliot
Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings.
George Eliot
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
George Eliot
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
George Eliot
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
George Eliot
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot