George Eliot Quotes - Page 5

• One can say everything best over a meal.

  George Eliot

  Food, Meals

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.119, Wordsworth Editions

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• I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.

  George Eliot

  Flower, Thinking, Knows

  George Eliot (2004). “Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.90, Sparklesoup LLC

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• It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Rain, Flower

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4197, Delphi Classics

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• And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

  George Eliot

  Men, Middlemarch, Courses

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, Xist Publishing

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• Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Goodbye, Lonely

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.188

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• If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

  George Eliot

  Art, Men, Doe

  Letter, 5 July 1859

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• Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it really belongs. It is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbour is good for nothing, than to enter into all the circumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion.

  George Eliot

  Nice, Blue, Mind

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.72

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• In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

  George Eliot

  Noble, Vengeance, Scorn

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.249

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• People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Thinking, Yellow

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.212, Penguin

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• Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

  George Eliot

  Positive, Integrity, Character

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• I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

  George Eliot

  Pregnancy, Trying, Literature

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• I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Fortune, Cheerfulness

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.233, 谷月社

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• It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Witty, Giving Up

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1147, Wordsworth Editions

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• Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, May, Pills

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.29

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• Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

  George Eliot

  Fishes

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.123

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• It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

  George Eliot

  Patience, Reason Why, Patient

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.445, Wordsworth Editions

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• Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Literature, Hours

  George Eliot (2011). “Daniel Deronda (丹尼爾的半生緣)”, p.575, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of
  silence is large enough beyond the grave.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Couple, Silence

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.615, 谷月社

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• The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

  George Eliot

  Light, Darkness, Curtains

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.48

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• Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

  George Eliot

  Love, Long, Silence

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• It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

  George Eliot

  Hands, Letters, Kind

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.236, 谷月社

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• When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

  George Eliot

  Life, Clouds, Imagination

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.259

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• A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.

  George Eliot

  Eye, Resolve, Betray

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.112

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• but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

  George Eliot

  Men, Order, Littles

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.228, Booklassic

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• And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch

  George Eliot

  Dream, Names, Feelings

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