George Eliot Quotes - Page 16

• I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

  George Eliot

  Hate, People, Dear

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2860, Delphi Classics

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• I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

  George Eliot

  Peace, Shadow, Sin

  George Eliot (1889). “Mill on the Floss ; Silas Marner ; The Lifted Veil ; and Brother Jacob”

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• Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.

  George Eliot

  Hate, Fire, Light

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.264, ShandonPress

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• A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Women, Expectations

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.16

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• Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

  George Eliot

  Time, Needs

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.153, Booklassic

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• How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Birthday, Memories

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.678

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• Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Sorrow, Trouble

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.118, Wordsworth Editions

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• There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

  George Eliot

  Salt, Folks

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.61

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• In every parting there is an image of death.

  George Eliot

  Literature, Parting

  'Scenes of Clerical Life' (1858) 'Amos Barton' ch. 10

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• Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

  George Eliot

  Neutrality, Saws, Merit

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.376, Xist Publishing

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• The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Lovely, Lovely Woman

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.298

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• It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

  George Eliot

  Foolish, Reasoning, Seems

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5502, Delphi Classics

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• There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

  George Eliot

  Weakness, Common, Mercy

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1544, Delphi Classics

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• It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

  George Eliot

  Love, Heart, Needs

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

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• A good solid bit of work lasts.

  George Eliot

  Work, Lasts, Bits

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.429, Delphi Classics

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• There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

  George Eliot

  Common Sense, Water, Pumps

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.345, George Eliot

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• We cannot reform our forefathers.

  George Eliot

  Reform, Forefathers

  George Eliot (1862). “Adam Bede ... Tenth edition”, p.453

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• There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

  George Eliot

  Luck, Chance, Strings

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6293, Delphi Classics

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• No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

  George Eliot

  Love, Evil, Effort

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3402, Delphi Classics

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• A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

  George Eliot

  Girl, People, Feelings

  George Eliot (2016). “Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus”, p.225, 谷月社

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• It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

  George Eliot

  Father, Son, Giving

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.139, Booklassic

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• That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

  George Eliot

  Blessed, Sky, Golden

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

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• When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

  George Eliot

  Drama, Thinking, Foam

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6533, Delphi Classics

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• Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

  George Eliot

  Sarcastic, Destiny, Hands

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.72, Penguin

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• There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Literature, Determined

  'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 3

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