George Eliot Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.

  George Eliot

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Believe

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.139

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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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• He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Self, Rivalry

  George Eliot (1889). “Mill on the Floss ; Silas Marner ; The Lifted Veil ; and Brother Jacob”

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• I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

  George Eliot

  Brain, Becoming, Mathematics

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.112, 谷月社

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• The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

  George Eliot

  Hate, Hatred, Form

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

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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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• A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

  George Eliot

  Sides, Disposition, Patronizing

  George Eliot, Carol A. Martin (2008). “Adam Bede”, p.269, Oxford University Press

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• What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

  George Eliot

  Time, Opportunity, Men

  George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.45

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• My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Childhood, Sorrow

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• Consequences are unpitying.

  George Eliot

  Consequence

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.170, George Eliot

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• We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

  George Eliot

  Knowing, Judging, Judgment

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1275, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience
  has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling
  within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength.
  We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians
  can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Sadness, Feelings

  George Eliot (1884). “George Eliot's Works”

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• How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice.

  George Eliot

  Dark, Voice, Rivers

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.943, Wordsworth Editions

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• The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

  George Eliot

  Lawlessness, Revolution, Rebellion

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5886, Delphi Classics

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• Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

  George Eliot

  Children, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Pain, Live Life

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2488, Delphi Classics

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• Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

  George Eliot

  Character, Cutting, Body

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.480, Penguin

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• Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Sympathy, Relation

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1477, Delphi Classics

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• Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

  George Eliot

  Genius, Fetters

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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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• People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

  George Eliot

  Distance, Eye, People

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• Effective magic is transcendent nature.

  George Eliot

  Magic, Transcendent

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

  George Eliot

  Artist, Novelists, Benefits

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.98, 谷月社

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• I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

  George Eliot

  Play, Saws, Stories

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