George Eliot Quotes - Page 25

• It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

  George Eliot

  Music, Middlemarch, Interrupted

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.663, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Believe, Fire

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.447, 谷月社

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• Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

  George Eliot

  Children, Believe, Hero

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.199, George Eliot

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• Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.

  George Eliot

  Life, Shoes, Looks

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.35

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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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• Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

  George Eliot

  Art, Sacred, Pure

  George Eliot (2006). “The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Edition”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

  George Eliot

  Family, Children, Littles

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola”, p.14, George Eliot

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• It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.

  George Eliot

  Weather, Impossible, Cold

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.23, 谷月社

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• The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

  George Eliot

  Pride, Soul, Body

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1720, ShandonPress

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• Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

  George Eliot

  Animal, Feet, Pet

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• It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

  George Eliot

  Home, Hypocrisy, Abuse

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.65, Xist Publishing

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