George Eliot Quotes - Page 24

• There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

  George Eliot

  Jealousy, Passion, Fire

  George Eliot (1994). “Middlemarch”, p.175, Wordsworth Editions

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• All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance

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• There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

  George Eliot

  Love, Names, Weakness

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.91

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• Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

  George Eliot

  Love, Fall, Kissing

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.215, Open Road Media

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• Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Mutual

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.545, Penguin

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• A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Giving

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.515

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• One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

  George Eliot

  Evil, Wells

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.309, 谷月社

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• Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Nails, Decay

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• Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, People, Depth

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• Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

  George Eliot

  Art, War, Passion

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.117, Penguin

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• In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Pain, Taken

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.31, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.

  George Eliot

  Family, Sadness, Deep Sadness

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.52

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• I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

  George Eliot

  Women, Stupid, Ems

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.462, Delphi Classics

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• Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Ignorant, Would Be

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.138, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

  George Eliot

  Strength, Strong, Women

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

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• The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

  George Eliot

  Ego, Doe, Belief

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.345, Penguin

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• A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Women, Humor

  Daniel Deronda bk. 2, ch. 15 (1876)

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• Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

  George Eliot

  Life, Spiritual, Excellence

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.4128, ShandonPress

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• No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

  George Eliot

  Expression, Literature, Indifference

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

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• Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

  George Eliot

  Women, Monsters, Literature

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.619, Open Road Media

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• Breed is stronger than pasture.

  George Eliot

  Past, Stronger, Ancestry

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• All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

  George Eliot

  Father, Alphabet, Ends

  "Mill on the Floss". Volume I,

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• There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Baby, Order

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.72, London

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• Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Struggle, Errors

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2784, Delphi Classics

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• We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Humility, Hands

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.633, Wordsworth Editions

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