George Eliot Quotes - Page 7

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

  George Eliot

  Positive Thinking, Thinking, Might

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

  George Eliot

  Children, Fate, Littles

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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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• 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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• 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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