George Eliot Quotes - Page 23

• There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?

  George Eliot

  Morning, Balance, Despair

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.316, George Eliot

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• The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

  George Eliot

  Law, Medicine, People

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.63, Penguin

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• Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.

  George Eliot

  Stupid, Sarcasm, Blow

  George Eliot (2013). “The Complete Novels of George Eliot: Adam Bede + The Lifted Veil + The Mill on the Floss + Silas Marner + Romola + Brother Jacob + Felix Holt the Radical + Middlemarch + Daniel Deronda”, p.2215, e-artnow

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• There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Hatred, Cry

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.14

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• I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

  George Eliot

  Levels, Materialism, Felt

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.371, Penguin

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• Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

  George Eliot

  Growth, Bud, Sap

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.35

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• The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Lying, Smell

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.31

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• To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Water, Littles

  George Eliot (1869). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.225

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• Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Facts, Sometimes

  George Eliot (2016). “Silas Marner: Top Novelist Focus”, p.50, 谷月社

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• It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

  George Eliot

  Truth, Sound, Half

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.25

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• The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

  George Eliot

  Truth, Disposition, Colour

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt ,The Radical”, p.469, George Eliot

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• There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.

  George Eliot

  Men, Air, Evil

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.422, George Eliot

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• The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

  George Eliot

  Spiritual, Nature, Self

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.153, 谷月社

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• I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

  George Eliot

  Latin, People, Awkward

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.51

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• You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

  George Eliot

  Disappointment, Lying, Forever

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Home, Men

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.72, Delphi Classics

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• One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

  George Eliot

  Pride, Self, Satisfaction

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.148, Xist Publishing

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• There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Lying, Cutting

  George Eliot (2016). “The Lifted Veil”, p.23, George Eliot

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• May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

  George Eliot

  Love, Sweet, Agony

  George Eliot (1900). “Armgart: The Spanish Gypsy, and Other Poems”

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• But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Cities

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.657, Wordsworth Editions

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• Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Clouds, Imagination

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.330, 谷月社

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• Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.

  George Eliot

  Men, Hands, Breathing

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2733, Delphi Classics

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• For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.

  George Eliot

  Moving, Years, Soul

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.196, Penguin

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• I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

  George Eliot

  Knack, Anticipation, Estates

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.550, Oxford Paperbacks

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• It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

  George Eliot

  Work, Blessing, Sake

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.405

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