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George Eliot Quotes (489 quotes)
 | “Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.” ―George Eliot Source/Notes: Janet's Repentance Ch. 6. - Scenes of Clerical Life (1858) |
| Source/Notes: Adam Bede (1859) |
| Source/Notes: Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Chapter XLIV |
| “I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.” ―George Eliot Source/Notes: The Mill on the Floss (1860) |
| “Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.” ―George Eliot Source/Notes: Adam Bede (1859) |
| “Ugly and deformed people have great need of unusual virtues, because they are likely to be extremely uncomfortable without them. (Book V.).” ―George Eliot Source/Notes: The Mill on the Floss (1860) |
| Source/Notes: The Complete Novels of George Eliot V.1, Kiddy Monster Publication - ISBN: 9789879991015 |
| Source/Notes: Daniel Deronda (1876) |
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George Eliot
Born: November 22, 1819
Died: December 22, 1880 (aged 61)
Nationality: British
Occupation: Author, novelist
Bio: Mary Anne Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight.
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