George Eliot Quotes - Page 21

• No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

  George Eliot

  Business, Achievement, Done

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.385

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• Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Discipline, Receiving

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.222, 谷月社

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• Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

  George Eliot

  Progress, Literature, Heat

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.186, George Eliot

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• People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

  George Eliot

  Witty, People, Literature

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Men, Wife

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

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• There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Literature, Determined

  'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 3

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• But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

  George Eliot

  Heartbreak, Judging, Feelings

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.180, Penguin

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• Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

  George Eliot

  Lying, Men, Should Have

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.386, Penguin

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• The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

  George Eliot

  Men, Knowing, Soul

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.87, Penguin

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• Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Falling In Love, Love You

  George Eliot (2017). “Middlemarch”, p.134, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

  George Eliot

  Hilarious, Mistake, Males

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.78, Booklassic

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• Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

  George Eliot

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Judgment

  George Eliot (2004). “Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.110, Sparklesoup LLC

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• It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

  George Eliot

  Communication, Feelings, Language

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

  George Eliot

  Balls, Ems, Want

  "The Mill on the Floss". Book by George Eliot, 1860.

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• There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Baby, Order

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.72, London

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• Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Struggle, Errors

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2784, Delphi Classics

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• No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

  George Eliot

  Loving You, New Life, Pay

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1381, ShandonPress

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• Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Atheism, Form

  'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 1, ch. 10

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• I protest against any absolute conclusion.

  George Eliot

  Protest, Conclusion, Absolutes

  George Eliot (1994). “Middlemarch”, p.69, Wordsworth Editions

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• Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

  George Eliot

  Sarcastic, Destiny, Hands

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.72, Penguin

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• What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.

  George Eliot

  Mean, Feet, Bachelors

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.409, Wordsworth Editions

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• We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . .

  George Eliot

  Time, Spring, Flower

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.49, George Eliot

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• Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Beautiful Women, Temptation

  "Middlemarch".

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• 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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