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

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• 61.

  If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Maggie Tulliver, in The Mill on the Floss, bk. 6, ch. 2 (1860).
• 62.

  ... pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 6 (1871-1872).
  
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• 63.

  In every parting there is an image of death.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. First published in Blackwood's Magazine (1857). Amos Barton, ch. 10, Scenes of Clerical Life (1858).
  
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• 64.

  ... despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 47 (1871-1872).
  
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• 65.

  Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist, editor. The Spanish Gypsy, bk. 3 (1868).
  
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• 66.

  Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. The Spanish Gypsy, bk. 3 (1868). Pseudonym of Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans.
  
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• 67.

  Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 39 (1871-1872).
• 68.

  ... very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 21 (1871-1872).
• 69.

  The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist, editor. The Mill on the Floss, bk. 6, ch. 3 (1860).
  
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• 70.

  Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

  George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. The Mill on the Floss, bk. 6, ch. 10 (1860). Pseudonym of Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans.
  
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