George Eliot Quotes - Page 30

• 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

  George Eliot

  God, Men, Hands

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.254

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• I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.

  George Eliot

  Light, Woven, Unraveling

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.251

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• Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

  George Eliot

  Children, Simple, Men

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.401, George Eliot

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• You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

  George Eliot

  Love You, Pride, Thinking

  George Eliot “Middlemarch, Volume III”, Lulu.com

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• Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

  George Eliot

  Self Confidence, People, Addresses

  George Eliot (2015). “Daniel Deronda”, p.46, Booklassic

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• Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

  George Eliot

  Allowance, Conjecture, Knows

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.785, Booklassic

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• You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.

  George Eliot

  Work, Love You, Play

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.608, Booklassic

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• To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Views, Cheerful

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.683, Xist Publishing

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• What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

  George Eliot

  Tragedy, Needs, Gone

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.101

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• One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

  George Eliot

  Ideas, Looks, Way

  George Eliot (1869). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.158

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• Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.

  George Eliot

  Dog, Sorry, Dumb

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.470, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

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• Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.

  George Eliot

  Slavery, May, Young

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.260, Penguin

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• Fairy folk a-listening Hear the seed sprout in the spring, And for music to their dance Hear the hedgerows wake from trance, Sap that trembles into buds Sending little rhythmic floods Of fairy sound in fairy ears. Thus all beauty that appears Has birth as sound to finer sense And lighter-clad intelligence.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Listening, Sound

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda: Easyread Edition”, p.346, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

  George Eliot

  Men, Reputation, Fame

  George Eliot (2009). “Middlemarch: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.153, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!

  George Eliot

  Fate, Passing Away, Today

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• The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain-- The grandest death, to die in vain--for love Greater than sways the forces of the world!

  George Eliot

  Jesus, Should Have, Coward

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4137, Delphi Classics

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• Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.

  George Eliot

  Luck, Mind, Use

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.143, George Eliot

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• Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Fire, Soul

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.244

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• I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Understanding, Experience

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1192, ShandonPress

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• Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Dream, Men, Vision

  Robert Coles, George Eliot, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (2007). “Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life”, p.19, Modern Library

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• Love supreme defies all sophistry.

  George Eliot

  Love, Sophistry, Supreme

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.213

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• The worst of misery
  Is when a nature framed for noblest things
  Condemns itself in youth to petty joys,
  And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life
  Gasping from out the shallows.

  George Eliot

  Air, Joy, Misery

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.444

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• Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.

  George Eliot

  Motherhood, Vanity, Self

  George Eliot (1876). “Scenes of clerical life”, p.267

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• A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Mountain, Proud

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• A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

  George Eliot

  Children, Men, Earth

  George Eliot (2005). “Silas Marner”, p.6, Collector's Library

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