George Eliot Quotes - Page 27

• Particular lies may speak a general truth.

  George Eliot

  Lying, May, Speak

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.405

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• I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

  George Eliot

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.391, Penguin

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• But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!

  George Eliot

  Ambition, Long, Miracle

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2578, Delphi Classics

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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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• I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

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• She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

  George Eliot

  Struggle, Perception, Adjusting

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.244, Penguin

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• The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

  George Eliot

  Soul, Feelings, Mutual Love

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.830, ShandonPress

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• Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.

  George Eliot

  Life, Air, Games

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.196

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• I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

  George Eliot

  Courage, Men, Thinking

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.329, Wordsworth Editions

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• Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

  George Eliot

  Death, Perfect, Feels

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.424

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• As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Self, Doe

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.64, 谷月社

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• The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.

  George Eliot

  Men, Tails, Ems

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.462, Delphi Classics

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• I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

  George Eliot

  Reading, Mind, Done

  George Eliot (1881). “George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals”

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• in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Expression, Certain

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6797, Delphi Classics

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• There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

  George Eliot

  Eras, Youth, Something Better

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1994, Delphi Classics

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• A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.

  George Eliot

  Selfish, Artist, Giving

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.98, 谷月社

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• I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Long, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1193, Wordsworth Editions

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• Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Half, World

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.365, Wordsworth Editions

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• When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.

  George Eliot

  Men, Resolution, Bachelors

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.348, Wordsworth Editions

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• Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

  George Eliot

  Hands, Remembrance, Soul

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3225, Delphi Classics

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• Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

  George Eliot

  Summer, Wings, Space

  Laetitia Weaver, George Eliot “Marian Evans in the Twenty First Century”, Lulu.com

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• Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

  George Eliot

  Anxiety, Perception, Captives

  George Eliot (189?). “Middlemarch”

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• Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

  George Eliot

  Legs, Break, Heavy

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.715, Wordsworth Editions

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• and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

  George Eliot

  Discovery, Agony, Soul

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.83, 谷月社

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