George Eliot Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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 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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• I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Hardship, Pretending

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.99, Penguin

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• But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

  George Eliot

  Lasts, Moments, Critical

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.333, Penguin

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• Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.

  George Eliot

  Integrity, Ashamed, Doing Right

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• Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, People, Depth

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• Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

  George Eliot

  Art, War, Passion

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.117, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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