George Eliot Quotes About Truth

• Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

  George Eliot

  Truth, Literature, Easy

• It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

  George Eliot

  Truth, Sound, Half

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.25

• The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

  George Eliot

  Truth, Disposition, Colour

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt ,The Radical”, p.469, George Eliot

• Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Truth, Giving

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.133, George Eliot

• Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

  George Eliot

  Truth, May, Knowledge Is Power

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2985, Delphi Classics

• Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

  George Eliot

  Truth, Flavour, Rough

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3961, Delphi Classics

• Sweet Truth is a queen proud and mighty-- Her throne is in heaven above.

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Queens, Truth

• Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

  George Eliot

  Wall, Truth, Paradise

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.105

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