George Eliot Quotes - Page 20

• In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Pain, Taken

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.31, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.

  George Eliot

  Family, Sadness, Deep Sadness

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.52

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• The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.

  George Eliot

  Anger, Passion, Vibrations

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.287

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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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• There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a mistake. She has lost her crown. The deepest secret of human blessedness has half whispered itself to her, and then forever passed her by.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Forever, Secret

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.434, 谷月社

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• Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

  George Eliot

  Believe, Men, Fabric

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.451, Penguin

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• To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf. That is the sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue.

  George Eliot

  Revenge, Fall, Giving

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.294, George Eliot

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• It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound.

  George Eliot

  Women, Flower, Singing

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.190

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• A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.

  George Eliot

  Women, Accepting, Made

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.167

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• It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of.

  George Eliot

  Women, Thinking, Hot And Cold

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.119, George Eliot

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• I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.... I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it.

  George Eliot

  Work, Hate, Pride

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

  George Eliot

  Work, Men, Bridges

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.

  George Eliot

  Work, Men, Squares

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.60

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• In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Mind, Growth

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.80

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• The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses.

  George Eliot

  Men, Animal, Self

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6068, Delphi Classics

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• When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .

  George Eliot

  Rain, Men, Wind

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3846, Delphi Classics

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• A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

  George Eliot

  Kings, Men, Royalty

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4074, Delphi Classics

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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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• The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

  George Eliot

  Culture, Obstacles, Opinion

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5933, Delphi Classics

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• A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

  George Eliot

  Squirrels, Air, Delicacy

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.33

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• The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.

  George Eliot

  Dog, Men, Differences

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.192, Wordsworth Editions

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• Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Men, Idols

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• The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.

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  Fall, Love Is, Feet

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.299, 谷月社

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• The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

  George Eliot

  Animal, Ideas, Self

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6068, Delphi Classics

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• I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Smell, Rose

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1242, Wordsworth Editions

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