George Eliot Quotes About Heroism

• Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

  George Eliot

  Children, Believe, Hero

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.199, George Eliot

• Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

  George Eliot

  Children, Hero, Believe

• There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.

  George Eliot

  Hero, Circles, Hell

  George Eliot (2000). “Felix Holt, The Radical”, p.433, Broadview Press

• Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

  George Eliot

  Winning, Victory, Heroism

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1113, Wordsworth Editions

• To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

  George Eliot

  Women, Thinking, Winning

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.529, Broadview Press

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