George Eliot Quotes - Page 12

• Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.31, 谷月社

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• Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

  George Eliot

  Death, Funeral, Looks

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.318

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• Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.

  George Eliot

  Giving, Trouble, Easy

  George Eliot (2013). “The Complete Novels of George Eliot: Adam Bede + The Lifted Veil + The Mill on the Floss + Silas Marner + Romola + Brother Jacob + Felix Holt the Radical + Middlemarch + Daniel Deronda”, p.2278, e-artnow

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• There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

  George Eliot

  Men, Compassion, Feelings

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.406, Penguin

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• Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

  George Eliot

  Rivers, Waiting, Feelings

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.152, London

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• Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Jealousy, Anger

  The Mill on the Floss bk. 1, ch. 10 (1860)

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• It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.

  George Eliot

  Struggle, Love Is, Iron

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1166, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

  George Eliot

  Love, Easy, Difficult

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.515

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• There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

  George Eliot

  Failure, Air, People

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.322, George Eliot

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• It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Believe, Eye

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.441, 谷月社

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• I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.615, 谷月社

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• I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

  George Eliot

  Women, Men, Be Good

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.100, Penguin

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• We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

  George Eliot

  God, Religious, Hands

  'Adam Bede' (1859) ch.42

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• Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

  George Eliot

  Justice, Kingdoms, Facts

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6233, Delphi Classics

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• We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

  George Eliot

  Self, Achievement, Looks

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.3538, ShandonPress

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• We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

  George Eliot

  Expectations, Remember, Born

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, Penguin

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• But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Men, Use

  "The Sad Fortunes Of The Reverend Amos Barton".

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• A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Home, Men

  "Daniel Deronda".

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• For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Memories, Compassion

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6067, Delphi Classics

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• These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

  George Eliot

  Jewels, Color, Jewelry

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2657, ShandonPress

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• Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Memories, Home

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.542, Penguin

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• The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

  George Eliot

  Lips, Pity, Divine

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3792, Delphi Classics

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• If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Past, Should Have

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.550, George Eliot

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• Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung--are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.

  George Eliot

  Love, Dark, Blue

  George Eliot (2006). “Middlemarch: Easyread Edition”, p.35, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Expectations, Looks, Way

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.136

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