George Eliot Quotes About Evil

• No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

  George Eliot

  Love, Evil, Effort

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3402, Delphi Classics

• That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.

  George Eliot

  Struggle, Perfectly Good, Light

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.261, Penguin

• There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.

  George Eliot

  Men, Air, Evil

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.422, George Eliot

• One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

  George Eliot

  Evil, Wells

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.309, 谷月社

• Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

  George Eliot

  Children, Pain, Ignorance

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.109, ShandonPress

• We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Humility, Hands

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.633, Wordsworth Editions

• Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

  George Eliot

  Heart, People, Evil

  George Eliot (2006). “Everyone and everything in George Eliot”, M E Sharpe Inc

• The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good.

  George Eliot

  Spiritual, Mother, Brother

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3786, Delphi Classics

• I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

  George Eliot

  Wall, Pain, Lying

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.259, Penguin

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