George Eliot Quotes - Page 16

• The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

  George Eliot

  Journey, Thinking, Years

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.320, Cambridge University Press

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• ... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

  George Eliot

  Imperfection, Painting, Insight

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2220, Delphi Classics

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• Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

  George Eliot

  Art, Kind, Fine

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....”, p.426

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• It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.

  George Eliot

  Known

  George Eliot (2011). “Daniel Deronda (丹尼爾的半生緣)”, p.2017, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Queens, Truth

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• So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

  George Eliot

  Heaven, World

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6036, Delphi Classics

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• The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

  George Eliot

  Firsts, Goodness, Reverence

  Scenes of Clerical Life "Jane's Repentance" ch. 10 (1858)

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• No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.

  George Eliot

  Failure, Different, Matter

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• Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Thank You, Gratitude

  'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 4, ch. 32

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• There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

  George Eliot

  Fire, Shapes, Enthusiasm

  George Eliot “Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2”, Lulu.com

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• But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Mistake, Source

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.295, Penguin

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• Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.

  George Eliot

  Past, Daylight, Rubbish

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.186

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• Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Sadness, Ties

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.34, London

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• The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

  George Eliot

  Success, Congratulations, Thinking

  George Eliot “Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2”, Lulu.com

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• Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

  George Eliot

  Love, Peace, Sorrow

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.227, Wordsworth Editions

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• That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Marriage, Distance

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3265, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Lying, Humility, Hands

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.633, Wordsworth Editions

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• A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

  George Eliot

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

  George Eliot

  Peace, Shadow, Sin

  George Eliot (1889). “Mill on the Floss ; Silas Marner ; The Lifted Veil ; and Brother Jacob”

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• Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.

  George Eliot

  Hate, Fire, Light

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.264, ShandonPress

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• A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Women, Expectations

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.16

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• Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

  George Eliot

  Time, Needs

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.153, Booklassic

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• Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

  George Eliot

  Education, Luck, Matter

  "Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot".

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• How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Birthday, Memories

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.678

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• Things are achieved when they are well begun.

  George Eliot

  Wells

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.199

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