George Eliot Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• Conscience is harder than our enemies,
  Knows more, accuses with more nicety.

  George Eliot

  Enemy, Harder, Niceties

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.61

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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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• What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

  George Eliot

  Life, Motivation, Literature

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.658, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Trouble's made us kin.

  George Eliot

  Trouble, Made

  George Eliot (1862). “Adam Bede ... Tenth edition”, p.404

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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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• 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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• May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Brave, Grace

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• Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

  George Eliot

  Limits, Wells

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.906, Booklassic

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• there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.

  George Eliot

  Two, Way, Used

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.77

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• Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Men, Make Believe

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2794, Delphi Classics

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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 golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  George Eliot (2016). “Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus”, p.210, 谷月社

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• In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.

  George Eliot

  Failure, Half, Losing

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.203, Penguin

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• We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

  George Eliot

  Motivational, Reality, Might

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

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• All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.

  George Eliot

  Order, Reason, All Things

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1594, Delphi Classics

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• The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Misery, Worst

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• When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

  George Eliot

  Age, Reason, Goodness

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.607, ShandonPress

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• Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6444, Delphi Classics

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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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• Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

  George Eliot

  Art, Men, Fellow Man

  George Eliot, Carol A. Martin (2008). “Adam Bede”, p.18, Oxford University Press

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• Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

  George Eliot

  Sometimes, Nonsense, Rage

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.203

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• There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

  George Eliot

  Phrases, Serious, Belief

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.233

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• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Thinking, Ideas

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

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