George Eliot Quotes - Page 23

• The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.

  George Eliot

  Disappointment, May, Vexation

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.127

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• I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Nests, Littles

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.28

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• The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Heart, Shelter

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.235

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• What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.

  George Eliot

  Omission, Sublime, Poet

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.42, Penguin

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• Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.

  George Eliot

  Patterns, Conscience

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6056, Delphi Classics

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• Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.

  George Eliot

  Running, Air, Breathing

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.490, Wordsworth Editions

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• Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

  George Eliot

  Savages, Levels, Emotion

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2593, 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.

  George Eliot

  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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• That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

  George Eliot

  Punishment, Yoke

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3184, Delphi Classics

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• 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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• There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. 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 and to engage in conscious mischief — a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Crush, Baby

  "Adam Bede".

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• Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Lying, Curves

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill on the Floss: Top Novelist Focus”, p.391, 谷月社

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• We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.

  George Eliot

  Light, Air, Utterance

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.23, Booklassic

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• 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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