“It is never too late to be what you might have been.””
Quotes by George Eliot
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?””
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.””
“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.””
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?””
George EliotMary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was a prominent English novelist and a key figure in the Victorian literary scene. Born in provincial England in 1819, she became renowned for her i...