George Eliot Quotes About Opinions

• He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

  George Eliot

  People, Anxiety, Feelings

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.125, Wordsworth Editions

• If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

  George Eliot

  Air, Stupidity, Opinion

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.30, George Eliot

• A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

  George Eliot

  Opinion, Cynicism, Fellows

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.76, Penguin

• Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

  George Eliot

  Believe, Men, Fabric

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.451, Penguin

• Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Heart, Men

  George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.250

• Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it really belongs. It is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbour is good for nothing, than to enter into all the circumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion.

  George Eliot

  Nice, Blue, Mind

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.72

• The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

  George Eliot

  Culture, Obstacles, Opinion

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5933, Delphi Classics

• I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

  George Eliot

  Heaven, Public Opinion, Belief

  Robert Coles, George Eliot, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (2007). “Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life”, p.31, Modern Library

• The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

  George Eliot

  Soul, Opinion, Contradictory

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.139

• It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.

  George Eliot

  Giving, Friendly, Opinion

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.30, George Eliot

• To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Views, Cheerful

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.683, Xist Publishing

• Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

  George Eliot

  Men, Dresses, Taste

• I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up forever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.

  George Eliot

  Forever, Mind, Opinion

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.329, Xist Publishing

• My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.

  George Eliot

  Book, Opinion, Delivering

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.398

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