George Eliot Quotes - Page 19

• Life's a vast sea
  That does its mighty errand without fail,
  Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.

  George Eliot

  Life, Sea, Doe

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• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Thinking, Should Have

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, People, Depth

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• Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

  George Eliot

  Art, War, Passion

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.117, Penguin

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