George Eliot Quotes - Page 10

• Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Taken, Fate

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.269, ShandonPress

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• bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

  George Eliot

  Spiritual, Literature, Amusing

  George Eliot (2013). “The Complete Works of George Eliot”, p.5315, e-artnow

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• Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

  George Eliot

  Selfish, Science, Obligation

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.483, Penguin

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• Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

  George Eliot

  Past, Joy, Sorrow

  George Eliot (1955). “The George Eliot Letters: 1878-1880”

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• We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

  George Eliot

  Self, Stupidity, World

  George Eliot (2007). “Middlemarch”, p.216, Collector's Library

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• To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Joy, Soul

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.190, Penguin

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• ... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

  George Eliot

  Rebellion, Defiance, One Thing

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.306, Penguin

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• A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it.

  George Eliot

  Rotten, Cheese, Born

  'Adam Bede' (1859) ch. 32

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• An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Literature, May

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1969, ShandonPress

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• To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

  George Eliot

  Fear, Intellectual, Examination

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6448, Delphi Classics

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• We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

  George Eliot

  Travel, Journey, Views

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.381

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• Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

  George Eliot

  Long, Way, Now And Then

  "Complete Works of George Eliot".

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• Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Butterfly, Expectations

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.115, London

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• For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Past, Reality

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.75

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• There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

  George Eliot

  Country, Spiritual, Taken

  'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 3, ch. 24

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• Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be so. What makes life dreary is the want of motive; but once beginning to act with the penitential, loving purpose you have in your mind, there will be unexpected satisfactions--there will be newly-opening needs--continually coming to carry you on from day to day. You will find your life growing like a plant.

  George Eliot

  Life, Distance, Views

  George Eliot (1883*). “The Works of George Eliot in Twelve Volumes: Scenes of clerical life - Life of George Eliot”

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• I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

  George Eliot

  Ciphers, Faces, Poet

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.107

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• The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Moving, Animal

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.15

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• Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

  George Eliot

  Determined, Action, Pity

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.219, Wordsworth Editions

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• Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

  George Eliot

  Self, Objectivity, Vision

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.386, Xist Publishing

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• I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

  George Eliot

  Future, Past, Ties

  "The Mill on the Floss". Volume II,

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• A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?

  George Eliot

  Girl, Believe, Weather

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola: In Two Volumes”, p.76

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• Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

  George Eliot

  Play, Ideas, Acting

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• Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

  George Eliot

  Life, Death, Kings

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.401

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• What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

  George Eliot

  Cute, Friendship, Faith

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.134, 谷月社

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