George Eliot Quotes

Mary Anne Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She authored seven novels, including Adam Bede The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862-63), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. ...more

Birth: November 22, 1819 - Death: December 22, 1880

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Topic(s): Inspirational , Meant To Be , Never Too Late

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Topic(s): Inspirational , Character , Motivational

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Topic(s): Persons , Feelings , Comfort

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

Topic(s): Men , Giving , Inspirational

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.