George Eliot Quotes - Page 9

• Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

  George Eliot

  Dream, Daylight, Waking

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.31, 谷月社

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• The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

  George Eliot

  Cute, Idiot, Wit

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.206, Penguin

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• Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

  George Eliot

  Life, Change, Influence

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2578, ShandonPress

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• No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

  George Eliot

  Art, Men, Temptation

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1664, ShandonPress

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• Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

  George Eliot

  Form, Limbs, Force

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.175

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• More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Simple, Compassion

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1272, Wordsworth Editions

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• Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

  George Eliot

  Running, Quality, Safe

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.47, Penguin

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• ... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.

  George Eliot

  Stupid, Believe, Towns

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.114, Penguin

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• Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Animal, Men

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.388, Penguin

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• Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

  George Eliot

  Messengers, Messages

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.432

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• How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.

  George Eliot

  Spring, First Love, Boys

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.445, Delphi Classics

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• Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

  George Eliot

  Self, Simplicity, Consciousness

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• The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.

  George Eliot

  Life, Heart, Men

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.6, 谷月社

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• The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

  George Eliot

  Facts, Latter, Former

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.297, Cambridge University Press

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• When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

  George Eliot

  Burning, Brightness, Saws

  George Eliot (1862). “Adam Bede ... Tenth edition”, p.77

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• 'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

  George Eliot

  Character, Destiny, Aphorism

  The Mill on the Floss bk. 6, ch. 6 (1860)

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• To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Men, Mind

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.301, 谷月社

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• You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

  George Eliot

  Men, Looks, Ostracism

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.420, Booklassic

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• Joy is the best of wine.

  George Eliot

  Wine, Joy

  George Eliot (1861). “Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe”, p.80

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• That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.

  George Eliot

  Struggle, Perfectly Good, Light

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.261, Penguin

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• Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

  George Eliot

  Children, Deeds, May

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.681, Broadview Press

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• Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

  George Eliot

  Self, Religion, All Things

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• Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Taken, Fate

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.269, ShandonPress

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• Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Mind, Cobwebs

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola: In Two Volumes”, p.105

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• Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Good Intentions

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.605, ShandonPress

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