George Eliot Quotes - Page 17

• The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

  George Eliot

  Hate, Men, Yoke

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.157

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• It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.

  George Eliot

  Country, Prosperity

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.234

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• Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Sorrow, Trouble

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.118, Wordsworth Editions

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• I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.

  George Eliot

  Giving Up, Revenge, Mean

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.403, George Eliot

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• All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance

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• There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

  George Eliot

  Love, Names, Weakness

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.91

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• Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

  George Eliot

  Love, Fall, Kissing

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.215, Open Road Media

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• Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Mutual

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.545, Penguin

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• A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Giving

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

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• One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

  George Eliot

  Evil, Wells

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.309, 谷月社

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• Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Nails, Decay

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• Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Believe, Fire

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.447, 谷月社

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• Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

  George Eliot

  Children, Believe, Hero

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.199, George Eliot

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• Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.

  George Eliot

  Life, Shoes, Looks

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.35

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• The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Lovely, Lovely Woman

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.298

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• It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

  George Eliot

  Foolish, Reasoning, Seems

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5502, Delphi Classics

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• There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

  George Eliot

  Weakness, Common, Mercy

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1544, Delphi Classics

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• It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

  George Eliot

  Love, Heart, Needs

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.

  George Eliot

  Waiting, Providence

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.80

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• The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.

  George Eliot

  Hero, Years, Land

  Daniel Deronda bk. 6, ch. 42 (1876)

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