George Eliot Quotes About Expectations

• Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Butterfly, Expectations

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.115, London

• A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Women, Expectations

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.16

• We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

  George Eliot

  Expectations, Remember, Born

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, Penguin

• Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

  George Eliot

  Years, Expectations, Vain

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.50, 谷月社

• I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

  George Eliot

  Taken, Sight, Doors

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.136, Penguin

• The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Expectations, Looks, Way

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.136

• One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in the science, and I hope to disprove Young's theory that "as soon as we have found the key of life it opes the gates of death." Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest. What a miserable augury for the progress of the race and the destination of the individual if the more matured and enlightened state is the less happy one!

  George Eliot

  Believe, Keys, Race

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

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