George Eliot Quotes - Page 19

• To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.

  George Eliot

  Rivers, Soul, Receptive

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.185

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• I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in the library at Offendene, but there is nothing readable. The leaves all stick together and smell musty. I wish I could write books to amuse myself, as you can! How delightful it must be to write books after one's own taste instead of reading other people's! Home-made books must be so nice.

  George Eliot

  Nice, Book, Reading

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.37, 谷月社

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• I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

  George Eliot

  People, Speak, Enough

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.84, Penguin

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• Animals are such agreeable friends.

  George Eliot

  Animal

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社

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• Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

  George Eliot

  Easy, Difficult, Motive

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• It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

  George Eliot

  Mind, Well Known, Conviction

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.300

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• I not only want to be loved, I want to be told that I'm loved.

  George Eliot

  Want

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• Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

  George Eliot

  Errors, Form, Humans

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• Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

  George Eliot

  Years, Expectations, Vain

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

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• Education is an asset no man can take away.

  George Eliot

  Men, Assets

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• It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

  George Eliot

  Friends, Thinking, Fiber

  George Eliot (2010). “The Works of George Eliot”, General Books

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• Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Politics, Vices

  George Eliot (2010). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.549, The Floating Press

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• There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

  George Eliot

  Jealousy, Passion, Fire

  George Eliot (1994). “Middlemarch”, p.175, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

  George Eliot

  Women, Stupid, Ems

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.462, Delphi Classics

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• Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Ignorant, Would Be

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.138, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

  George Eliot

  Strength, Strong, Women

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

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• The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

  George Eliot

  Ego, Doe, Belief

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.345, Penguin

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• A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Women, Humor

  Daniel Deronda bk. 2, ch. 15 (1876)

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• Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

  George Eliot

  Life, Spiritual, Excellence

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.4128, ShandonPress

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• No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

  George Eliot

  Expression, Literature, Indifference

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

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• Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

  George Eliot

  Women, Monsters, Literature

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.619, Open Road Media

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• Breed is stronger than pasture.

  George Eliot

  Past, Stronger, Ancestry

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• All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

  George Eliot

  Father, Alphabet, Ends

  "Mill on the Floss". Volume I,

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• I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Conviction, Social

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.565

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• In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Literature, Privacy

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2264, ShandonPress

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