George Eliot Quotes - Page 27

• The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

  George Eliot

  Gout, Rich, Accepting

  George Eliot (2014). “Silas Marner”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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• They the royal-hearted women are
  Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace
  For needy suffering lives in lowliest place,
  Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile,
  The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.

  George Eliot

  Women, Grace, Suffering

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.226

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• There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs.

  George Eliot

  Men, Race, Imagination

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6957, Delphi Classics

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• One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

  George Eliot

  Jealousy, Pain, Eye

  George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.120

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• the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.

  George Eliot

  Christian, Attitude, Lying

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• As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Self, Doe

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.64, 谷月社

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• The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.

  George Eliot

  Men, Tails, Ems

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

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• I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

  George Eliot

  Reading, Mind, Done

  George Eliot (1881). “George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals”

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• in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Expression, Certain

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6797, Delphi Classics

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• There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

  George Eliot

  Eras, Youth, Something Better

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1994, Delphi Classics

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• A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.

  George Eliot

  Selfish, Artist, Giving

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.98, 谷月社

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• I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Long, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1193, Wordsworth Editions

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• She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.

  George Eliot

  Hardship, Earth, Want

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.331, George Eliot

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• Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

  George Eliot

  Long, Secret, Suffering

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.595, George Eliot

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• Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

  George Eliot

  Heart, People, Evil

  George Eliot (2006). “Everyone and everything in George Eliot”, M E Sharpe Inc

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• For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

  George Eliot

  Light, Metaphor, Graves

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.92, Booklassic

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• I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten yourself in straining your eyes after the mounting lark, or in wandering through the still lanes when the fresh-opened blossoms fill them with a sacred silent beauty like that of fretted aisles, where would be the use of my descriptive catalogue?

  George Eliot

  Spring, Eye, Would Be

  George Eliot (1862). “Adam Bede ... Tenth edition”, p.71

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• The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.

  George Eliot

  Middlemarch, Seems, Ifs

  George Eliot (1890). “Adam Bede: Scenes of Clerical Life”

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• So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Morning, Memories

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.157, Wordsworth Editions

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• As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

  George Eliot

  Gossip, People, Mind

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

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• The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

  George Eliot

  Taste, Firsts, Unbearable

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.255, Wordsworth Editions

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• Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.

  George Eliot

  Portraits, Satan, Made

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1550, Delphi Classics

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• Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Simple, People

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Two angels guide
  The path of man, both aged and yet young.
  As angels are, ripening through endless years,
  On one he leans: some call her Memory,
  And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,
  With deep mysterious accords: the other,
  Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams
  A light divine and searching on the earth,
  Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,
  Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,
  Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp
  Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked
  But for Tradition; we walk evermore
  To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Memories, Eye

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2724, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

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• If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Heaven, Feelings

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.395, ShandonPress

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