George Eliot Quotes About Books

• Don't judge a book by its cover

  George Eliot

  Book, Haste Makes Waste, Judging

• No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

  George Eliot

  Appreciation, Time, Book

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.442, 谷月社

• Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Morning, Book

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.467, Wordsworth Editions

• I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

  George Eliot

  Book, Writing, Giving

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1859-1861”

• Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

  George Eliot

  Running, Time, Travel

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1155, ShandonPress

• It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

  George Eliot

  Stupid, Book, Literature

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.135, Xist Publishing

• Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Book, Half

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.155

• Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.

  George Eliot

  Book, Order, Names

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.7, 谷月社

• ... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.

  George Eliot

  Book, Suffering, Doubt

  George Eliot, Margaret Harris, Judith Johnston (2000). “The Journals of George Eliot”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

• With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.

  George Eliot

  Book, Past, Mirrors

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, George Eliot

• I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in the library at Offendene, but there is nothing readable. The leaves all stick together and smell musty. I wish I could write books to amuse myself, as you can! How delightful it must be to write books after one's own taste instead of reading other people's! Home-made books must be so nice.

  George Eliot

  Nice, Book, Reading

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.37, 谷月社

• Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!

  George Eliot

  Book, Eye, Intelligent

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.113

• In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak--there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palled undersized men who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.

  George Eliot

  Country, Book, Men

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1303, Wordsworth Editions

• I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.

  George Eliot

  Art, Book, Writing

• My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.

  George Eliot

  Book, Opinion, Delivering

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.398

• When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

  George Eliot

  Book, Reading, Men

  George Eliot (2010). “Middlemarch”, p.305, Lulu.com

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