George Eliot Quotes About Pleasure

• It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Caring, Men, Feelings

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1625, Delphi Classics

• You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

  George Eliot

  Men, World, Suits

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.53

• Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.

  George Eliot

  New Year, Witty, Blessing

  George Eliot (1898). “Works: George Eliot's life”

• One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

  George Eliot

  Ideas, Looks, Way

  George Eliot (1869). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.158

• In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

  George Eliot

  Travel, Shapes, Fool

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4069, Delphi Classics

• 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

• I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.... I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it.

  George Eliot

  Work, Hate, Pride

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

• The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.

  George Eliot

  Disappointment, May, Vexation

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.127

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