George Eliot Quotes About Affection

• 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.

• 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

• Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Good Life, Affection

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.362, 谷月社

• 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

• A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Women, Humor

  Daniel Deronda bk. 2, ch. 15 (1876)

• O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!

  George Eliot

  Light, Soul, Answers

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.141

• I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Nests, Littles

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.28

• O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

  George Eliot

  Regret, Grief, Affection

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3571, Delphi Classics

• Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Passion, First Love

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.184

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