George Eliot Quotes About Imagination

• The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

  George Eliot

  Travel, Memories, Imagination

  George Eliot, Elma Fraser Stuart (1909). “Letters from George Eliot to Elma Stuart, 1872-1880”

• Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

  George Eliot

  Dog, Wall, Imagination

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.59, Wordsworth Editions

• Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments.

  George Eliot

  Passion, Men, Games

  "Felix Holt, the Radical". Book by George Eliot. Chapter 29, 1866.

• Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

  George Eliot

  Running, Time, Travel

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1155, ShandonPress

• But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Cities

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.657, Wordsworth Editions

• Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Clouds, Imagination

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.330, 谷月社

• The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

  George Eliot

  Imagination, Doubt, Fuel

  George Eliot “Theophrastus Such”, Jazzybee Verlag

• You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Men, Imagination

  "Daniel Deronda".

• We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Imagination

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.588, Wordsworth Editions

• It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiæ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Powerful, Passion

• When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

  George Eliot

  Life, Clouds, Imagination

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.259

• 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

• There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs.

  George Eliot

  Men, Race, Imagination

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6957, Delphi Classics

• A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.

  George Eliot

  Mean, Men, Imagination

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