George Eliot Quotes - Page 37

• Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

  George Eliot

  Running, Hobbies, Literature

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.632, Wordsworth Editions

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• Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

  George Eliot

  Party, Literature, Cabinets

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.35, 谷月社

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• In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

  George Eliot

  Literature, Individualism, Spite

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.3874, ShandonPress

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• It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

  George Eliot

  Women, Memorable, Opposites

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.54, 谷月社

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• The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Acquaintance, Persons

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.93, 谷月社

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• The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

  George Eliot

  God, Memories, Son

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.468, 谷月社

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• A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Women, Heart

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• Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

  George Eliot

  Night, Voice, Silence

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3820, Delphi Classics

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• What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.

  George Eliot

  Achieve, Should, Resolve

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.762, Xist Publishing

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• Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

  George Eliot

  Past, Years, Desire

  George Eliot (2006). “The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Large Edition”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Imagination

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.588, Wordsworth Editions

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• Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

  George Eliot

  Saint, Sage, Poet

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6043, Delphi Classics

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• I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

  George Eliot

  Mean, Fine Words, Action

  George Eliot (2006). “The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Large Edition”, p.129, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge....wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. Just because Miss Brooke was hasty in her trust, it is not therefore clear that Mr. Casaubon was unworthy of it.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Sweet, Land

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• The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Fall, Ignorance

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.360, 谷月社

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• We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

  George Eliot

  Names, People, Littles

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.429, Broadview Press

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• Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.

  George Eliot

  Witty, Religious, Real

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6957, Delphi Classics

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• A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

  George Eliot

  Opinion, Cynicism, Fellows

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.76, Penguin

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• Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

  George Eliot

  Order, Chaos, Harmony

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.233, Penguin

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• Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Men, Thinking

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.189, Penguin

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• We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

  George Eliot

  Our World, Discovery, Facts

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.223, Penguin

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• If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

  George Eliot

  Men, Littles, New Roads

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.693, Booklassic

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• Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone.

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  Mean, Giving, Would Be

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• Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

  George Eliot

  Grief, Struggle, Fall

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• People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, People, Neighbor

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2693, Delphi Classics

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