George Eliot Quotes - Page 24

• It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Thinking, Long

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.238, Wordsworth Editions

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• Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Distance, Perspective

  George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.127, Wordsworth Editions

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• Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Art, Distance

  George Eliot (1901). “Works of George Eliot ...: Daniel Deronda”

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• Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Truth, Giving

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.133, George Eliot

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• The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

  George Eliot

  Imagination, Doubt, Fuel

  George Eliot “Theophrastus Such”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.

  George Eliot

  Children, Niece, Passion

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• Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Book, Half

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.155

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• So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

  George Eliot

  Music, World, Invisible

  George Eliot (1874). “The Legend of Jubal: And Other Poems”, p.242

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• If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

  George Eliot

  Clothes, Everyday, Use

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

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• Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

  George Eliot

  Life, Real, Too Late

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.546, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

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• It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

  George Eliot

  World, Demand, Fine

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2858, Delphi Classics

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• To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

  George Eliot

  Men, Names, Virtue

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.230, Hayes Barton Press

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• But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Block, Men, Personality

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.687, Wordsworth Editions

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• Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

  George Eliot

  Play, Needs, Inward

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.243, 谷月社

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• Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Mistake, Self

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.597, Xist Publishing

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• The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Desire, Conquer

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.123, George Eliot

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• Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

  George Eliot

  Fear, Stronger, Probability

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.450, Penguin

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• Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiacal vision which only impelled them, and is left farther and farther behind, vanishing forever even out of hope in the moment which is called success.

  George Eliot

  Forever, Soul, Vision

  George Eliot (1869). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.49

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• 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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