George Eliot Quotes - Page 37

• ... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

  George Eliot

  Distance, Men, Squares

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.255, Penguin

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• ... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

  George Eliot

  Ambition, Vision, Ease

  George Eliot (2006). “Middlemarch: Easyread Edition”, p.402, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, America, Might

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.106, Penguin

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• I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

  George Eliot

  Wall, Pain, Lying

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.259, Penguin

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• After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, People, Growing

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.356, Wordsworth Editions

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• Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

  George Eliot

  Coarse, Subtle, Impression

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.300

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• Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

  George Eliot

  Son, Two, Hundred

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.28

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• The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

  George Eliot

  Triumph, Human Nature, Creeds

  George Eliot (2015). “Eliot's Essays: Top Essays”, p.64, 谷月社

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• We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

  George Eliot

  Jesus, Prayer, Pain

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• You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Men, Imagination

  "Daniel Deronda".

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• The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Happiness, Freedom

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.393, 谷月社

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• When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

  George Eliot

  Wish, Literature, Exclusion

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.123, Oxford Paperbacks

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• To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

  George Eliot

  Feelings, Feeling Lost, Littles

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.52, Penguin

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• Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Literature, Murder

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.143, Penguin

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• For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Heart, Caring

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.690, 谷月社

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• Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

  George Eliot

  Ideas, Literature, Trouble

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.502

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• 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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