George Eliot Quotes - Page 39

• It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Self, Temptation

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2614, Delphi Classics

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• The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

  George Eliot

  Change, Nature, Believe

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.498, Penguin

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• Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

  George Eliot

  Best Friend, Friendship, Spring

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.438

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• Hopes have precarious life.
  They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off
  In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Growth, Vigorous

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4195, Delphi Classics

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• Women know no perfect love:
  Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong;
  Man clings because the being whom he loves
  Is weak and needs him.

  George Eliot

  Life, Strong, Love Is

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.459

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• Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

  George Eliot

  Children, Hero, Believe

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• It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

  George Eliot

  Fear, Acceptance, Self

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.32

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• I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Lying, Religion

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.429

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• There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

  George Eliot

  Patience, Philosophy, Wrath

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.311, Booklassic

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• It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Caring, Men, Feelings

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1625, Delphi Classics

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• Hear Everything and judge for yourself

  George Eliot

  Judging, Judgement

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.295, Penguin

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• Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

  George Eliot

  Christmas, Fashion, Hair

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.179, George Eliot

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• Go forward with joyful confidence.

  George Eliot

  Anticipation, Joyful

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• What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Men, Use

  George Eliot (2016). “The Sad Fortunes Of The Reverend Amos Barton”, p.56, George Eliot

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• The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, People, Hobbies

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1227, Wordsworth Editions

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• The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

  George Eliot

  Honesty, Attitude, Spring

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.112

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• I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up forever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.

  George Eliot

  Forever, Mind, Opinion

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.329, Xist Publishing

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• When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Heart, Thinking

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3803, Delphi Classics

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• There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.

  George Eliot

  Passion, Thinking, Mind

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.310, Penguin

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• Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample o'er the dead to seize their spoil, Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible As exhaltations laden with slow death, And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys Breathes pallid pestilence.

  George Eliot

  Joy, Soul, Desire

  George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda0: Collection of British and American Authors”, p.2

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• Perhaps there is no time in a summer's day more cheering, than when the warmth of the sun is just beginning to triumph over the freshness of the morning--when there is just a lingering hint of early coolness to keep off languor under the delicious influence of warmth.

  George Eliot

  Summer, Morning, Cheer

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.149, Wordsworth Editions

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• Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Heart, Men

  George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.250

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• Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.

  George Eliot

  Joy, Woe, Fine

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6138, Delphi Classics

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• There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Husband, War

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.689, Oxford Paperbacks

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• A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because he didn't get extra pay for it.

  George Eliot

  Work, Men, Giving

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.121, Wordsworth Editions

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