George Eliot Quotes About Running

• Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

  George Eliot

  Running, Time, Travel

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1155, ShandonPress

• ...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.

  George Eliot

  Running, Garden, Thinking

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1072, Delphi Classics

• Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

  George Eliot

  Running, Hobbies, Literature

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.632, Wordsworth Editions

• Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.

  George Eliot

  Running, Tongue, Clock

  George Eliot (1862). “Adam Bede ... Tenth edition”, p.458

• Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.

  George Eliot

  Running, Air, Breathing

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.490, Wordsworth Editions

• You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

  George Eliot

  Running, Thinking, Entitlement

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.72

• 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

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