George Eliot Quotes About Quality

• 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

• To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

  George Eliot

  Hands, Soul, Feelings

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.153, Penguin

• It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

  George Eliot

  Fear, Acceptance, Self

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.32

• It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

  George Eliot

  Men, Fishing, Quality

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.364, Wordsworth Editions

• Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

  George Eliot

  Running, Quality, Safe

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.47, Penguin

• Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

  George Eliot

  Commitment, Waiting, Quality

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