George Eliot Quotes About Language

• The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Simple, Language Words

• A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

  George Eliot

  Mean, Two, Dubious

  George Eliot “Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2”, Lulu.com

• Correct English is the slang of prigs.

  George Eliot

  Language, Slang

  Middlemarch bk. 1, ch. 11 (1871 - 1872)

• Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

  George Eliot

  Positive Thinking, Thinking, Might

  Middlemarch bk. 2, ch. 14 (1871 - 1872)

• To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Knowing, Language

• Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Art, Distance

  George Eliot (1901). “Works of George Eliot ...: Daniel Deronda”

• It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

  George Eliot

  Communication, Feelings, Language

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

• I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

  George Eliot

  People, Way, Charity

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.417, Wordsworth Editions

• Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Language, Speak

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.212

• Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Real, Reading

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.113, Wordsworth Editions

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