George Eliot Quotes About Privacy

• In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Literature, Privacy

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2264, ShandonPress

• There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Literature, Determined

  'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 3

• ... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.

  George Eliot

  Selfish, Gentleman, Vices

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....”, p.354

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