George Eliot Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• 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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• 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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• ... 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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• Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more.

  George Eliot

  Mirrors, Pulse, Done

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.792, George Eliot

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• Human experience is usually paradoxical.

  George Eliot

  Human Experience, Paradoxical, Humans

  George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.663, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• Things are achieved when they are well begun.

  George Eliot

  Wells

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

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• Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.

  George Eliot

  Anger, Leaving, Tears

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.341

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• A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Anger, Men

  Spanish Gypsy Bk 1

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• Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Language, Speak

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.212

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• Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Childhood, Sorrow

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.104

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• Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.

  George Eliot

  Loyalty, Echoes, Voice

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.467

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• There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

  George Eliot

  Boots, Faults, Blame

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.137, Wordsworth Editions

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• We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

  George Eliot

  Fear, Fearless, Danger

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.942, Delphi Classics

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• It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

  George Eliot

  Clever, Stupidity, Pigeons

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.265, Courier Corporation

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• Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.

  George Eliot

  Shoes, Boots, Trouble

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.123

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• You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.

  George Eliot

  Life, Odd, Figures

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.233, Xist Publishing

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• So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.

  George Eliot

  Life, Jumping, Sea

  George Eliot (2000). “Felix Holt, The Radical”, p.289, Broadview Press

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• There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

  George Eliot

  Passion, Fire, Fuel

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.191

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