George Eliot Quotes About Fathers

• It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

  George Eliot

  Father, Son, Giving

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.139, Booklassic

• Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Father, Men

  "Romola: Top Novelist Focus".

• All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

  George Eliot

  Father, Alphabet, Ends

  "Mill on the Floss". Volume I,

• There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Husband, War

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.689, Oxford Paperbacks

• So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Morning, Memories

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.157, Wordsworth Editions

• Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Thee--see Thee weeping over them, and saying, "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life"--see Thee hanging on the cross and saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"--see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen.

  George Eliot

  Art, Prayer, Father

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.26, George Eliot

You May Also Like:

Jane Austen

Charlotte Bronte

Evelyn Waugh

Charles Dickens

Emily Bronte

Elizabeth Gaskell

Virginia Woolf