George Eliot Quotes About Harmony

• Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

  George Eliot

  Order, Chaos, Harmony

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.233, Penguin

• What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Voice, Giving

  George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda”, Dawson Brothers

• Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.

  George Eliot

  Music, Echoes, Law

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.64

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