George Eliot Quotes - Page 29

• Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

  George Eliot

  Missing, Dresses, Relief

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.6, Booklassic

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• the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.

  George Eliot

  Christian, Attitude, Lying

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• A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

  George Eliot

  Pride, Looks, Proud

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.150, ShandonPress

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• A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.

  George Eliot

  Mean, Men, Imagination

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• History repeats itself.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Wisdom, History

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• Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Children, Teaching

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• How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.

  George Eliot

  Blame, Reviews, Findings

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• There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

  George Eliot

  Wrath, Answers, Rooms

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.192, Penguin

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• It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

  George Eliot

  Trying, Distrust, Difficult

  Robert Coles, George Eliot, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (2007). “Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life”, p.18, Modern Library

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• Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

  George Eliot

  Busybodies

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.435

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• I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

  George Eliot

  Ideas, Atheism, Belief

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• Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

  George Eliot

  Running, Time, Travel

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1155, ShandonPress

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• Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

  George Eliot

  Motherhood, Heat, Force

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.224

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• Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

  George Eliot

  Long, Shadow, Dying

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.58

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• For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

  George Eliot

  Character, Self, Mind

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• You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

  George Eliot

  Husband, Men, Said

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.109, Penguin

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• A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

  George Eliot

  Fall, Dark, Men

  George Eliot (2006). “Silas Marner: Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.47, Prestwick House Inc

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• [It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

  George Eliot

  Venting, Emotion, Easier

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.105

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• I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.

  George Eliot

  God, Humble, Soul

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.133, Wordsworth Editions

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• We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

  George Eliot

  Judging, Secret, Sin

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3684, Delphi Classics

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• Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

  George Eliot

  Children, Simple, Men

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.401, George Eliot

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• The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

  George Eliot

  Mind, Desire, Arriving

  George Eliot (1875). “Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.24

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• There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

  George Eliot

  Hiking, Hatred, Ladders

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

  George Eliot

  Average, Feelings, Depth

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1222, ShandonPress

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• But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

  George Eliot

  Maggie, Vicissitudes, Young

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

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