George Eliot Quotes About Disappointment

• We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

  George Eliot

  Hurt, Disappointment, Pride

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

• Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Disappointment, Memorable

  George Eliot (2006). “Silas Marner: Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.155, Prestwick House Inc

• We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

  George Eliot

  Disappointment, Breakfast, Men And Women

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.291

• You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

  George Eliot

  Disappointment, Lying, Forever

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

• There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Disappointment, Exaggeration Is

  George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.350, Wordsworth Editions

• The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.

  George Eliot

  Disappointment, May, Vexation

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.127

• But faithfulness can feed on suffering,
  And knows no disappointment.

  George Eliot

  Disappointment, Suffering, Faithfulness

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.444

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