George Eliot Quotes About Reputation

• Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?

  George Eliot

  Men, Average, Careers

  George Eliot (1883). “The Essays of George Eliot”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

• "Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

  George Eliot

  Home, Reputation, Ruined

  'Felix Holt' (1866) epilogue

• Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

  George Eliot

  Stories, May, Reputation

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6581, Delphi Classics

• That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

  George Eliot

  Men, Reputation, Fame

  George Eliot (2009). “Middlemarch: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.153, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

  George Eliot

  Believe, Men, Fabric

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.451, Penguin

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