George Eliot Quotes - Page 29

• There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

  George Eliot

  Wrath, Answers, Rooms

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.192, Penguin

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• 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

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• It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

  George Eliot

  Trying, Distrust, Difficult

  Robert Coles, George Eliot, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (2007). “Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life”, p.18, Modern Library

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• Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

  George Eliot

  Busybodies

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.435

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• I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

  George Eliot

  Ideas, Atheism, Belief

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• Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

  George Eliot

  Motherhood, Heat, Force

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.224

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• Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

  George Eliot

  Long, Shadow, Dying

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.58

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• For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

  George Eliot

  Character, Self, Mind

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• You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

  George Eliot

  Husband, Men, Said

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.109, Penguin

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• A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

  George Eliot

  Fall, Dark, Men

  George Eliot (2006). “Silas Marner: Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.47, Prestwick House Inc

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• [It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

  George Eliot

  Venting, Emotion, Easier

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.105

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• I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.

  George Eliot

  God, Humble, Soul

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.133, Wordsworth Editions

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• We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

  George Eliot

  Judging, Secret, Sin

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3684, Delphi Classics

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• The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

  George Eliot

  Mind, Desire, Arriving

  George Eliot (1875). “Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.24

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• When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

  George Eliot

  Honesty, Law, People

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• I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

  George Eliot

  Children, Men, Needs

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.170, Wordsworth Editions

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• Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

  George Eliot

  Good Luck, Boys, Opportunity

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.205, 谷月社

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• Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

  George Eliot

  Compassion, Years, Fire

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.544, George Eliot

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• Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

  George Eliot

  Children, Pain, Ignorance

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.109, ShandonPress

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• That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger-not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Husband, Wife

  George Eliot (2004). “Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.113, Sparklesoup LLC

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• I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

  George Eliot

  Blessing, Thinking, Bored

  George Eliot (2015). “Daniel Deronda”, p.444, Booklassic

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• It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

  George Eliot

  Men, Joy, Forever

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.148

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• It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

  George Eliot

  Love, Strong, Conceited

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2804, Delphi Classics

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• There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Dark, Clouds, Rivers

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1045, Wordsworth Editions

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• Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

  George Eliot

  Self, Vision, Height

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.165, Booklassic

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