George Eliot Quotes - Page 33

• The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

  George Eliot

  Ideas, Doubt, Moments

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2958, Delphi Classics

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• How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.

  George Eliot

  Rivers, Feet, Choices

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6040, Delphi Classics

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• All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!

  George Eliot

  Morning, Stars, Night

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2740, ShandonPress

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• Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

  George Eliot

  Darkness, Secret, Wish

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.90, 谷月社

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• Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

  George Eliot

  Tone, Unexpected, Persons

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• Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

  George Eliot

  Eggs, Silence, May

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• There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

  George Eliot

  Men, Joy, Forever

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.10

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• Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.

  George Eliot

  Cutting, Two, Ties

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6046, Delphi Classics

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• The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Skills, Temptation

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• But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

  George Eliot

  Men, Wind, Certain

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.303

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• I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

  George Eliot

  Fighting, Men, Done

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.490

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• I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

  George Eliot

  Mean, Blessing, Thinking

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.400, Broadview Press

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• When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

  George Eliot

  Doors, Experts, Tools

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.22

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• How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him. . . .

  George Eliot

  Men, Decision, Age

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• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Grief, Baptism

  "Adam Bede". Book by George Eliot, 1859.

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• Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Deeds, Action, Fetters

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. Book 1, Miss Brooke. 1[,1]”, p.52

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• What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Sweet, Heart

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3376, Delphi Classics

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• Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.

  George Eliot

  Archer, Perfect, Deer

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.439

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• All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.

  George Eliot

  New Experiences, Childhood, Would Be

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1676, ShandonPress

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• It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.

  George Eliot

  Color, Scent, Strange

  George Eliot (1852). “Middlemarch”, p.15

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• What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Air, Satisfaction

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.24

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• Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

  George Eliot

  Men, Vegetables, Desire

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.168

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• To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

  George Eliot

  Men, Escaping, Docks

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.290

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• Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.

  George Eliot

  Dog, Sorry, Dumb

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.470, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

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• Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.

  George Eliot

  Slavery, May, Young

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.260, Penguin

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