George Eliot Quotes - Page 7

• Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

  George Eliot

  Pain, People, Literature

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.592, George Eliot

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• Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

  George Eliot

  Wine, Vinegar, Sun

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.238

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• One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

  George Eliot

  Money, Luxury, Giving

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2974, ShandonPress

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• Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

  George Eliot

  Vision, Use, Sensibility

  "Complete Works of George Eliot".

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• We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

  George Eliot

  Dog, Live Life, Animal

  "Puppy Love: new BBC4 comedy explores the UK's canine compulsion" by Joanna Scanlan & Vicki Pepperdine, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2014.

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• It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

  George Eliot

  Cutting, Action, One Thing

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.316, 谷月社

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• The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Sorrow, Sublime, Speech

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.171

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• Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

  George Eliot

  Heaven, Earth, Fit

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.317

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• The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.

  George Eliot

  Blow, Giving, Negativity

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.31

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• Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Jealousy, Heart

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill on the Floss: Top Novelist Focus”, p.394, 谷月社

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• Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

  George Eliot

  Our Thoughts

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.227

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• It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

  George Eliot

  Men, Intellectual, Intelligence

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.48, 谷月社

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• She was no longer wrestling with the grief,
  but could sit down with it as a lasting companion
  and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

  George Eliot

  Sad, Grief, Wrestling

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.271

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• Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Inspiring, Perseverance

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.152, Penguin

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• This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

  George Eliot

  World, Fingers, Puzzling

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.307, George Eliot

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• It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

  George Eliot

  Men, Fishing, Quality

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.364, Wordsworth Editions

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• to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Bored, Bores

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• We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

  George Eliot

  Grief, Silence, Suffering

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.427, Wordsworth Editions

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• What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

  George Eliot

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.935, Xist Publishing

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• There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Depressing, Knowledge

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.137, Penguin

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• There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

  George Eliot

  Sorrow, Trying, Failing

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.499, Penguin

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• Man cannot choose his duties.

  George Eliot

  Men, Duty

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.157

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• I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

  George Eliot

  Way

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1212, ShandonPress

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• Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

  George Eliot

  Life, Exercise, Animal

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• Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

  George Eliot

  Life, Saws, Gravity

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.101

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