“the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.”
More George Eliot quote about:
Charles Dickens Writer
Charlotte Bronte Novelist
Elizabeth Gaskell Novelist
Emily Bronte Novelist
Evelyn Waugh Writer
George Henry Lewes Philosopher
George Sand Novelist
Jane Austen Novelist
T. S. Eliot Playwright
Thomas Hardy Novelist
Virginia Woolf Writer
William Makepeace Thackeray Novelist