George Eliot Quotes - Page 14

• One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in the science, and I hope to disprove Young's theory that "as soon as we have found the key of life it opes the gates of death." Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest. What a miserable augury for the progress of the race and the destination of the individual if the more matured and enlightened state is the less happy one!

  George Eliot

  Believe, Keys, Race

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

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• It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Circumstances, Remains

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.764, Wordsworth Editions

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• Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Self, Preparation

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.656, Open Road Media

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• But is it what we love, or how we love,
  That makes true good?

  George Eliot

  Life, Good Life

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6238, Delphi Classics

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• Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another

  George Eliot

  Soul, Suits, Middlemarch

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.7

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• Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Mean, Errors

  'Scenes of Clerical Life' (1858) 'Janet's Repentance' ch. 25

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• Teach love, for that is what you are.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Teach

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• Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.

  George Eliot

  Missing, Comfort, Cushions

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.429, Wordsworth Editions

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• The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Genius

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.244, Wordsworth Editions

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• The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.

  George Eliot

  Law, Bows, Willpower

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1907, ShandonPress

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• Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.

  George Eliot

  Choices, Argument, Indulgence

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.59

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• ... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

  George Eliot

  Reading, Brain, Proof

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• But faithfulness can feed on suffering,
  And knows no disappointment.

  George Eliot

  Disappointment, Suffering, Faithfulness

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.444

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• A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

  George Eliot

  Love, Two, Long

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• There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Agony, Vibrations

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6060, Delphi Classics

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• What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

  George Eliot

  Art, Children, Ocean

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.35, Xist Publishing

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• In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.

  George Eliot

  Life, Spring, Wine

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.693, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

  George Eliot

  Death, Heart, Waiting

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2743, ShandonPress

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• There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.

  George Eliot

  Wine, Beer, Knowing

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.302

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• A woman's rank
  Lies in the fulness of her womanhood:
  Therein alone she is royal.

  George Eliot

  Women, Lying, Royal

  George Eliot “Poems”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Men, World

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.654

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• It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is as if life were not sacred too, as if it were comparatively a small thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother or sister who has to climb the whole toilsome mountain with us. It seems as if all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey.

  George Eliot

  Death, Brother, Journey

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• Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Children, Happy Times

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.50, 谷月社

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• He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

  George Eliot

  Appreciation, Men, Careers

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.107, Penguin

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• But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

  George Eliot

  Sex, Husband, Animal

  George Eliot (1998). “Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe”, OUP Oxford

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