George Eliot Quotes

10 quotes by 9 authors

But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or… — Jamaica Kincaid
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded… — A. E. Housman
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. — Joyce Carol Oates
There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody… — Dorothy Parker
[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to… — Bart D. Ehrman
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I mean,… — Julia Glass
When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been… — Cynthia Ozick
The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish covenant: they wrote… — Cynthia Ozick
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot… — A. S. Byatt

Who Wrote These George Eliot Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 10 George Eliot Quotes as follows: