--- title: "13 George-eliot Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 13 George-eliot quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best George-eliot sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/lecturer-m-k-bhutta-scholar-31_adam-bede_she-is-psychologist-or-sick-moralist-or_2277998.jpg" --- > [“She is psychologist or sick, moralist or macaco, realist or romantic and guru or geek but she is one thing - the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lecturer-m-k-bhutta-scholar/she-is-psychologist-or-sick-moralist-or-macaco-realist-or-romantic/) [Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lecturer-m-k-bhutta-scholar/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/lecturer-m-k-bhutta-scholar-31_adam-bede_she-is-psychologist-or-sick-moralist-or_2277998.jpg) > [“The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot-middlemarch/the-days-were-longer-then-for-time-like-money-is-measured-by-our/) [George Eliot Middlemarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot-middlemarch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/052/george-eliot-middlemarch-87516_clock_the-days-were-longer-then-for-time-like_2269759.jpg) > [“The gods of the hearth exist for us still; and let all new faith be tolerant of that fetishism, lest it bruise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eiot/the-gods-of-the-hearth-exist-for-us-still-and-let-all-new-faith-be/) [George Eiot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eiot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95b/george-eiot-239474_george-eliot_the-gods-of-the-hearth-exist-for-us-stil_1163994.jpg) > [“The tragedy of Hetty is a ‘collide’26 between the free will and male dominant society or nobility27 or religion. If her conduct…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lecturer-m-k-bhutta-scholar/the-tragedy-of-hetty-is-a-collide-26-between-the-free-will-and-male/) [Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lecturer-m-k-bhutta-scholar/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f5/lecturer-m-k-bhutta-scholar-31_adam-bede_the-tragedy-of-hetty-is-a-collide-26-bet_1366117.jpg) > [“Here Carlyle had come, here George Eliot had progressed through the bookshelves. Roland could see her black silk skirts, her velvet trains,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/here-carlyle-had-come-here-george-eliot-had-progressed-through-the/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fc/a-s-byatt-5275_carlyle_here-carlyle-had-come-here-george-eliot_3049685.png) > [“The tragedy of Hetty is a ‘collide’ between the free will and male dominant society or nobility or religion. If her conduct…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lecturer-m-k-bhutta-scholar/the-tragedy-of-hetty-is-a-collide-between-the-free-will-and-male/) [Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lecturer-m-k-bhutta-scholar/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/805/lecturer-m-k-bhutta-scholar-31_adam-bede_the-tragedy-of-hetty-is-a-collide-betwee_684758.jpg) > [“But I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me." "What is that?" said Will, rather jealous of the belief.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/but-i-have-a-belief-of-my-own-and-it-comforts-me-what-is-that-said/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61f/george-eliot-84_belief_but-i-have-a-belief-of-my-own-and-it-com_2206094.jpg) > [“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds; and until we know what has been or will be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-evans/our-deeds-determine-us-as-much-as-we-determine-our-deeds-and-until-we/) [Marian Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-evans/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/937/marian-evans-89956_adam-bede_our-deeds-determine-us-as-much-as-we-det_209395.jpg) > [“Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-g-ingersoll/compare-king-william-with-the-philosopher-haeckel-the-king-is-one-of/) [Robert G. Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-g-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4da/robert-g-ingersoll-4527_advance_compare-king-william-with-the-philosophe_2494455.jpg) > [“And then last, but oh, so utterly first, came George Eliot. It was in the days when her cult was at its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-ellen-harrison/and-then-last-but-oh-so-utterly-first-came-george-eliot-it-was-in-the/) [Jane Ellen Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-ellen-harrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/154/jane-ellen-harrison-30732_george-eliot_and-then-last-but-oh-so-utterly-first-ca_928504.jpg) > [“There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone: you can't isolate yourself, and say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-evans/there-is-no-sort-of-wrong-deed-of-which-a-man-can-bear-the-punishment-2/) [Marian Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-evans/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c33/marian-evans-89956_adam-bede_there-is-no-sort-of-wrong-deed-of-which_1948774.jpg) > [“ Jeremy Bentham startled the world many years ago by stating in effect that if the amount of pleasure obtained from each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/jeremy-bentham-startled-the-world-many-years-ago-by-stating-in-effect/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dc/w-somerset-maugham-237_ash-wednesday_jeremy-bentham-startled-the-world-many-y_2512752.jpg) > [“She locked herself in her room. She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life, before she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/she-locked-herself-in-her-room-she-needed-time-to-get-used-to-her/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eeb/george-eliot-84_character_she-locked-herself-in-her-room-she-neede_1863998.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/george-eliot-2/#itemlist", "name": "George-eliot Quotes", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“She is psychologist or sick, moralist or macaco, realist or romantic and guru or geek but she is one thing - the neighbour of humanists who has one question: Why have you invented hell with good conscience?” (Bhutta)”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lecturer-m-k-bhutta-scholar/she-is-psychologist-or-sick-moralist-or-macaco-realist-or-romantic/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/lecturer-m-k-bhutta-scholar-31_adam-bede_she-is-psychologist-or-sick-moralist-or_2277998.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/lecturer-m-k-bhutta-scholar-31_adam-bede_she-is-psychologist-or-sick-moralist-or_2277998.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/lecturer-m-k-bhutta-scholar-31_adam-bede_she-is-psychologist-or-sick-moralist-or_2277998.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“She is psychologist or sick, moralist or macaco, realist or romantic and guru or geek but she is one thing…” — Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Eliot Middlemarch" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot-middlemarch/the-days-were-longer-then-for-time-like-money-is-measured-by-our/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/052/george-eliot-middlemarch-87516_clock_the-days-were-longer-then-for-time-like_2269759.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/052/george-eliot-middlemarch-87516_clock_the-days-were-longer-then-for-time-like_2269759.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/052/george-eliot-middlemarch-87516_clock_the-days-were-longer-then-for-time-like_2269759.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were…” — George Eliot Middlemarch", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The gods of the hearth exist for us still; and let all new faith be tolerant of that fetishism, lest it bruise its own roots.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Eiot" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eiot/the-gods-of-the-hearth-exist-for-us-still-and-let-all-new-faith-be/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95b/george-eiot-239474_george-eliot_the-gods-of-the-hearth-exist-for-us-stil_1163994.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95b/george-eiot-239474_george-eliot_the-gods-of-the-hearth-exist-for-us-stil_1163994.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95b/george-eiot-239474_george-eliot_the-gods-of-the-hearth-exist-for-us-stil_1163994.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The gods of the hearth exist for us still; and let all new faith be tolerant of that fetishism, lest it…” — George Eiot", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The tragedy of Hetty is a ‘collide’26 between the free will and male dominant society or nobility27 or religion. 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There is a terrible coercion in our deeds wihich may first turn the honest man into a deceiver, and then reconcile him to the change; for this reason -- that the second wrong presents itself to him in the guise of the only practicable right. The action which before commission has been seen with that blended common-sense and fresh untarnished feeling which is the healthy eye of the soul, is looked at afterwards with the lens of apologetic ingenuity, through which all things that men call beautiful and ugly are seen to be made up of textures very much alike. - Adam Bede p. 359”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marian Evans" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-evans/our-deeds-determine-us-as-much-as-we-determine-our-deeds-and-until-we/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/937/marian-evans-89956_adam-bede_our-deeds-determine-us-as-much-as-we-det_209395.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/937/marian-evans-89956_adam-bede_our-deeds-determine-us-as-much-as-we-det_209395.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/937/marian-evans-89956_adam-bede_our-deeds-determine-us-as-much-as-we-det_209395.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds; and until we know what has been or will be the…” — Marian Evans", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon whose head has been poured the divine petroleum of authority. Compare this king with Haeckel , who towers an intellectual colossus above the crowned mediocrity . Compare George Eliot with Queen Victoria. The Queen is clothed in garments given her by blind fortune and unreasoning chance, while George Eliot wears robes of glory woven in the loom of her own genius . The world is beginning to pay homage to intellect, to genius, to heart. We have advanced. We have reaped the benefit of every sublime and heroic self-sacrifice, of every divine and brave act; and we should endeavor to hand the torch to the next generation, having added a little to the intensity and glory of the flame .”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert G. 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Ingersoll", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“And then last, but oh, so utterly first, came George Eliot. It was in the days when her cult was at its height—thank heaven I never left her shrine!—and we used to wait outside Macmillan’s shop to seize the new instalments of Daniel Deronda. She came for a few minutes to my room, and I was almost senseless with excitement. I had just repapered my room with the newest thing in dolorous Morris papers. Some one must have called her attention to it, for I remember that she said in her shy, impressive way, “Your paper makes a beautiful background for your face.” The ecstasy was too much, and I knew no more.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jane Ellen Harrison" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-ellen-harrison/and-then-last-but-oh-so-utterly-first-came-george-eliot-it-was-in-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/154/jane-ellen-harrison-30732_george-eliot_and-then-last-but-oh-so-utterly-first-ca_928504.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/154/jane-ellen-harrison-30732_george-eliot_and-then-last-but-oh-so-utterly-first-ca_928504.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/154/jane-ellen-harrison-30732_george-eliot_and-then-last-but-oh-so-utterly-first-ca_928504.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“And then last, but oh, so utterly first, came George Eliot. It was in the days when her cult was at its…” — Jane Ellen Harrison", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone: you can't isolate yourself, and say that the evil which is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as disease. I know, I feel the terrible extent of suffering this sin of Arthur's has caused to others; but so does every sin cause suffering to others besides those who commit it. An act of vengeance on your part against Arthur would simply be another evil added to those we are suffering under: you could not bear the punishment alone; you would entail the worst sorrows on every one who loves you. You would have committed an act of blind fury, that would leave all the present evils just as they were, and add worse evils to them. You may tell me that you meditate no fatal act of vengeance: but the feeling in your mind is what gives birth to such actions, and as long as you indulge it, as long as you do not see that to fix your mind on Arthur's punishment is revenge, and not justice, you are in danger of being led on to the commission of some great wrong.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marian Evans" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-evans/there-is-no-sort-of-wrong-deed-of-which-a-man-can-bear-the-punishment-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c33/marian-evans-89956_adam-bede_there-is-no-sort-of-wrong-deed-of-which_1948774.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c33/marian-evans-89956_adam-bede_there-is-no-sort-of-wrong-deed-of-which_1948774.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c33/marian-evans-89956_adam-bede_there-is-no-sort-of-wrong-deed-of-which_1948774.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone: you can't isolate yourself, and…” — Marian Evans", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“ Jeremy Bentham startled the world many years ago by stating in effect that if the amount of pleasure obtained from each be equal there is nothing to choose between poetry and push-pin. Since few people now know what push-pin is, I may explain that it is a child's game in which one player tries to push his pin across that of another player, and if he succeeds and then is able by pressing down on the two pins with the ball of his thumb to lift them off the table he wins possession of his opponent's pin. [...] The indignant retort to Bentham 's statement was that spiritual pleasures are obviously higher than physical pleasures. But who say so? Those who prefer spiritual pleasures. They are in a miserable minority, as they acknowledge when they declare that the gift of aesthetic appreciation is a very rare one. The vast majority of men are, as we know, both by necessity and choice preoccupied with material considerations. Their pleasures are material. They look askance at those who spent their lives in the pursuit of art. That is why they have attached a depreciatory sense to the word aesthete, which means merely one who has a special appreciation of beauty. How are we going to show that they are wrong? How are we going to show that there is something to choose between poetry and push-pin? I surmise that Bentham chose push-pin for its pleasant alliteration with poetry. Let us speak of lawn tennis. It is a popular game which many of us can play with pleasure. It needs skill and judgement, a good eye and a cool head. If I get the same amount of pleasure out of playing it as you get by looking at Titian 's 'Entombment of Christ' in the Louvre, by listening to Beethoven 's 'Eroica' or by reading Eliot 's 'Ash Wednesday', how are you going to prove that your pleasure is better and more refined than mine? Only, I should say, by manifesting that this gift you have of aesthetic appreciation has a moral effect on your character.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "W. Somerset Maugham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/jeremy-bentham-startled-the-world-many-years-ago-by-stating-in-effect/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dc/w-somerset-maugham-237_ash-wednesday_jeremy-bentham-startled-the-world-many-y_2512752.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dc/w-somerset-maugham-237_ash-wednesday_jeremy-bentham-startled-the-world-many-y_2512752.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dc/w-somerset-maugham-237_ash-wednesday_jeremy-bentham-startled-the-world-many-y_2512752.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Jeremy Bentham startled the world many years ago by stating in effect that if the amount of pleasure…” — W. Somerset Maugham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“She locked herself in her room. She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life, before she could walk steadily to the place allotted her. A new searching light had fallen on her husband's character, and she could not judge him leniently: the twenty years in which she had believed in him and venerated him by virtue of his concealments came back with particulars that made them seem an odious deceit. He had married her with that bad past life hidden behind him, and she had no faith left to protest his innocence of the worst that was imputed to him. Her honest ostentatious nature made the sharing of a merited dishonor as bitter as it could be to any mortal. But this imperfectly taught woman, whose phrases and habits were an odd patchwork, had a loyal spirit within her. The man whose prosperity she had shared through nearly half a life, and who had unvaryingly cherished her—now that punishment had befallen him it was not possible to her in any sense to forsake him. There is a forsaking which still sits at the same board and lies on the same couch with the forsaken soul, withering it the more by unloving proximity. She knew, when she locked her door, that she should unlock it ready to go down to her unhappy husband and espouse his sorrow, and say of his guilt, I will mourn and not reproach. But she needed time to gather up her strength; she needed to sob out her farewell to all the gladness and pride of her life. When she had resolved to go down, she prepared herself by some little acts which might seem mere folly to a hard onlooker; they were her way of expressing to all spectators visible or invisible that she had begun a new life in which she embraced humiliation. She took off all her ornaments and put on a plain black gown, and instead of wearing her much-adorned cap and large bows of hair, she brushed her hair down and put on a plain bonnet-cap, which made her look suddenly like an early Methodist. Bulstrode, who knew that his wife had been out and had come in saying that she was not well, had spent the time in an agitation equal to hers. He had looked forward to her learning the truth from others, and had acquiesced in that probability, as something easier to him than any confession. But now that he imagined the moment of her knowledge come, he awaited the result in anguish. His daughters had been obliged to consent to leave him, and though he had allowed some food to be brought to him, he had not touched it. He felt himself perishing slowly in unpitied misery. Perhaps he should never see his wife's face with affection in it again. And if he turned to God there seemed to be no answer but the pressure of retribution. It was eight o'clock in the evening before the door opened and his wife entered. He dared not look up at her. He sat with his eyes bent down, and as she went towards him she thought he looked smaller—he seemed so withered and shrunken. A movement of new compassion and old tenderness went through her like a great wave, and putting one hand on his which rested on the arm of the chair, and the other on his shoulder, she said, solemnly but kindly— \"Look up, Nicholas.\" He raised his eyes with a little start and looked at her half amazed for a moment: her pale face, her changed, mourning dress, the trembling about her mouth, all said, \"I know;\" and her hands and eyes rested gently on him. He burst out crying and they cried together, she sitting at his side. They could not yet speak to each other of the shame which she was bearing with him, or of the acts which had brought it down on them. His confession was silent, and her promise of faithfulness was silent. Open-minded as she was, she nevertheless shrank from the words which would have expressed their mutual consciousness, as she would have shrunk from flakes of fire. She could not say, \"How much is only slander and false suspicion?\" and he did not say, \"I am innocent.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Eliot" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/she-locked-herself-in-her-room-she-needed-time-to-get-used-to-her/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eeb/george-eliot-84_character_she-locked-herself-in-her-room-she-neede_1863998.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eeb/george-eliot-84_character_she-locked-herself-in-her-room-she-neede_1863998.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eeb/george-eliot-84_character_she-locked-herself-in-her-room-she-neede_1863998.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“She locked herself in her room. 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