George Eliot Quotes About Wall

• Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

  George Eliot

  Dog, Wall, Imagination

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.59, Wordsworth Editions

• 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

• I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

  George Eliot

  Wall, Pain, Lying

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.259, Penguin

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