George Eliot Quotes - Page 26

• It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

  George Eliot

  Littles, Modern, States

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.35, 谷月社

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• Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

  George Eliot

  Blow, Wind, Bird

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.509, George Eliot

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• What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

  George Eliot

  Spiritual, Men, Crowns

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.38

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• Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

  George Eliot

  Winning, Victory, Heroism

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1113, Wordsworth Editions

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• Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Oddities, Sorrow, Faults

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6393, Delphi Classics

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• I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

  George Eliot

  Perseverance, Fear, Failure

  George Eliot (1997). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.365, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

  George Eliot

  Tired, People, Way

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.243, Penguin

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• The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

  George Eliot

  Women, History, Historical

  The Mill on the Floss bk. 6, ch. 3 (1860)

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• If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.

  George Eliot

  Trouble, Worst, Ifs

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1952, Delphi Classics

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• One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

  George Eliot

  New Beginnings, Men, Finding Yourself

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.91, Penguin

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• We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

  George Eliot

  Hurt, Disappointment, Pride

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

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• Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.

  George Eliot

  Determination, Rocks, Scales

  "Complete Works of George Eliot".

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• She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

  George Eliot

  Struggle, Perception, Adjusting

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.244, Penguin

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• You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

  George Eliot

  Feelings, Duty, Knows

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• I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

  George Eliot

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.391, Penguin

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• But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!

  George Eliot

  Ambition, Long, Miracle

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2578, Delphi Classics

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• I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Poet, Pardon

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.108, Booklassic

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• The bow always strung ... will not do.

  George Eliot

  Stress, Bows, Intensity

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• I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

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• It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Grief, Cutting

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

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• The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

  George Eliot

  Soul, Feelings, Mutual Love

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.830, ShandonPress

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• One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Life, Littles, Facts

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.150, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

  George Eliot

  Courage, Men, Thinking

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.329, Wordsworth Editions

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• Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

  George Eliot

  Death, Perfect, Feels

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.424

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• Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

  George Eliot

  Selfishness, Littles, Poor

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.176

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