George Eliot Quotes - Page 26

• People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

  George Eliot

  People, Bravery, Might

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

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• We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

  George Eliot

  Blood, Nerves, Subtle

  George Eliot (2016). “The Lifted Veil: Top Novelist Focus”, p.28, 谷月社

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• With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

  George Eliot

  Time, Memories, Past

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.536, 谷月社

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• Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Morning, Book

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.467, Wordsworth Editions

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• To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

  George Eliot

  Hands, Soul, Feelings

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.153, Penguin

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• You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Argument, Command

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.33

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• Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

  George Eliot

  Order, Play, Quality

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.129, 谷月社

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• Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

  George Eliot

  Witty, Pride, Vanity

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.581, Xist Publishing

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• It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

  George Eliot

  Littles, Modern, States

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.35, 谷月社

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• Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

  George Eliot

  Blow, Wind, Bird

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.509, George Eliot

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• What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

  George Eliot

  Spiritual, Men, Crowns

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.38

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• Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Oddities, Sorrow, Faults

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6393, Delphi Classics

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• I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

  George Eliot

  Perseverance, Fear, Failure

  George Eliot (1997). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.365, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

  George Eliot

  Tired, People, Way

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.243, Penguin

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• The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

  George Eliot

  Women, History, Historical

  The Mill on the Floss bk. 6, ch. 3 (1860)

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• Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

  George Eliot

  Winning, Victory, Heroism

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1113, Wordsworth Editions

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• One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

  George Eliot

  New Beginnings, Men, Finding Yourself

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.91, Penguin

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• If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.

  George Eliot

  Trouble, Worst, Ifs

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1952, Delphi Classics

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• We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

  George Eliot

  Hurt, Disappointment, Pride

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

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• Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.

  George Eliot

  Determination, Rocks, Scales

  "Complete Works of George Eliot".

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• It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Discovery, Fire

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.257, George Eliot

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• One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Life, Littles, Facts

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.150, Oxford Paperbacks

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• It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Grief, Cutting

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

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• I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Poet, Pardon

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.108, Booklassic

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• The bow always strung ... will not do.

  George Eliot

  Stress, Bows, Intensity

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