George Eliot Quotes About Character

• Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Karma

  'Adam Bede' (1859) ch. 29

• No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Trust, Character

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

• The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  George Eliot (2016). “Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus”, p.210, 谷月社

• Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

  George Eliot

  Positive, Integrity, Character

• For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Character, Self

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.162, Booklassic

• '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)

• There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.

  George Eliot

  Drama, Character, Creating

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.210, Booklassic

• Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

  George Eliot

  Character, Cutting, Body

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.480, Penguin

• The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

  George Eliot

  Change, Nature, Believe

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.498, Penguin

• For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

  George Eliot

  Character, Self, Mind

• If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

  George Eliot

  Character, Needs, Theory

  George Eliot (2015). “Eliot's Essays: Top Essays”, p.98, 谷月社

• But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

  George Eliot

  Love, Character, Men

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.164, Xist Publishing

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