George Eliot Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.

  George Eliot

  Eye, Men, Soul

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.272, Penguin

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• The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

  George Eliot

  Teacher, Responsibility, Power

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.502, 谷月社

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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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• In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

  George Eliot

  Noble, Vengeance, Scorn

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.

  George Eliot

  Life, Games, Play

  "Felix Holt, The Radical".

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

  George Eliot

  Positive, Integrity, Character

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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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• If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

  George Eliot

  Air, Stupidity, Opinion

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.30, George Eliot

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• I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out o' my mouth for things, when I know I should have a heavy conscience after 'em. I've seen pretty clear, ever since I could cast up a sum, as you can never do what's wrong without breeding sin and trouble more than you can ever see. It's like a bit o' bad workmanship--you never see th' end o' the mischief it'll do. And it's a poor look-out to come into the world to make your fellow creatures worse off instead o' better.

  George Eliot

  Should Have, Mind, Looks

  George Eliot (1900). “Works”

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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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• 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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• Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.

  George Eliot

  Enemy, Wavering, Belief

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3422, Delphi Classics

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• It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

  George Eliot

  Two Sides, Well Known, Wells

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.561, Broadview Press

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• Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

  George Eliot

  Positive Thinking, Thinking, Might

  Middlemarch bk. 2, ch. 14 (1871 - 1872)

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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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