George Eliot Quotes About Literature

• What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

  George Eliot

  Life, Motivation, Literature

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.658, Oxford Paperbacks

• The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sympathy

• Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

  George Eliot

  Death, Dying, Literature

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.81, Wordsworth Editions

• Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Literature, Hours

  George Eliot (2011). “Daniel Deronda (丹尼爾的半生緣)”, p.575, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

• But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Pain, Live Life

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2488, Delphi Classics

• We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

  George Eliot

  God, Religious, Hands

  'Adam Bede' (1859) ch.42

• The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Eggs, Hopeful

  George Eliot (1910). “Works of George Eliot”

• When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

  George Eliot

  Life, Wisdom, Peace

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

• Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

  George Eliot

  Order, Play, Quality

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.129, 谷月社

• If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Squirrels, History

  "Middlemarch". Volume 1,

• I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

  George Eliot

  Future, Past, Ties

  "The Mill on the Floss". Volume II,

• More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Simple, Compassion

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1272, Wordsworth Editions

• I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

  George Eliot

  Pregnancy, Trying, Literature

• Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

  George Eliot

  Pain, People, Literature

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.592, George Eliot

• Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

  George Eliot

  Truth, Literature, Easy

• For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.

  George Eliot

  Moving, Years, Soul

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.196, Penguin

• It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

  George Eliot

  Stupid, Book, Literature

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.135, Xist Publishing

• An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Literature, May

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1969, ShandonPress

• Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Mistake, Self

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.597, Xist Publishing

• We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

  George Eliot

  Jesus, Prayer, Pain

• The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Literature, Compunction

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.132, 谷月社

• Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Ignorant, Would Be

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.138, ReadHowYouWant.com

• And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

  George Eliot

  Strength, Strong, Women

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

• No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

  George Eliot

  Expression, Literature, Indifference

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

• Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Literature, Murder

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.143, Penguin

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