George Eliot Quotes - Page 3

• Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Disappointment, Memorable

  George Eliot (2006). “Silas Marner: Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.155, Prestwick House Inc

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• Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Karma

  'Adam Bede' (1859) ch. 29

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• After all, the true seeing is within.

  George Eliot

  Middlemarch, Seeing

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2220, Delphi Classics

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• Those who trust us educate us.

  George Eliot

  Education, Fathers Day, Teaching

  George Eliot “Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2”, Lulu.com

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• The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Simple, Language Words

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• It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Flower, Woods

  George Eliot (1901). “The Personal Edition of George Eliot's Works”

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• Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

  George Eliot

  People, Bees, Impatient

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• The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

  George Eliot

  Success, Winning, Exertion

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• Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

  George Eliot

  Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

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• One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Years, How To Be Happy

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.50, 谷月社

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• Don't judge a book by its cover

  George Eliot

  Book, Haste Makes Waste, Judging

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• I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

  George Eliot

  Men

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.218

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• Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Travel, Adventure

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• What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

  George Eliot

  Different, Metaphor, Results

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.163, George Eliot

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• No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

  George Eliot

  Appreciation, Time, Book

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.442, 谷月社

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• Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

  George Eliot

  Echoes, Soul, Immortality

  George Eliot (1871). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.287

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• Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Agreement, Delight

  George Eliot (1997). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

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• Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Sweet, Men

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.258, ShandonPress

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• The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Night, Light

  "Golden Gleams of Thought from the Words of Leading Orators, Divines, Philosophers, Statesmen and Poets". Book by S. Pollock Linn, 1881.

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• What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

  George Eliot

  Men, Hands, Stones

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.153, 谷月社

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• If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Squirrels, History

  "Middlemarch". Volume 1,

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• Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Truth Is, Hardest

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.256, Penguin

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• There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

  George Eliot

  Salt, Folks

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.61

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• A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

  George Eliot

  Fool, Idiot, Happens

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.329

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• There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Sadness, Learning

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.316, Xist Publishing

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