Creative Quotations from George Eliot (1819-1880)

Creative Quotations from . . .

George Eliot
(1819-1880) born on Nov 22

English novelist. Mary Ann Evans was the foremost woman novelist of her time, e.g., "Silas Marner," 1861.

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Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Ignorance. . . is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.

"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	Graf Dornberg, in Armgart, sc. 2 (1871).
R:	"Mr. Gilfil's Love-Story," ch. 3 (first published in Blackwood's Magazine, 1857; repr. in Scenes of Clerical Life, 1858).
A:	Daniel Deronda, bk. 1, ch. 6 (1876).
N:	In "An Uncommon Scold," by Abby Adams, 1989.
K:	Felix Holt, Epilogue (1866).