George Eliot Quotes - Page 32

• Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

  George Eliot

  Best Friend, Determination, Home

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• Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.

  George Eliot

  Night, Awful, Mystery

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4217, Delphi Classics

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• Dark the Night, with breath all flowers,
  And tender broken voice that fills
  With ravishment the listening hours,--
  Whisperings, wooings,
  Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings
  In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills!
  Dark the night
  Yet is she bright,
  For in her dark she brings the mystic star,
  Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love,
  From some unknown afar.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Stars, Flower

  George Eliot (19??). “The Complete Works of George Eliot in Eighteen Volumes: Poems”

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• Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Thee--see Thee weeping over them, and saying, "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life"--see Thee hanging on the cross and saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"--see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen.

  George Eliot

  Art, Prayer, Father

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.26, George Eliot

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• Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

  George Eliot

  Punishment, Hands, Wave

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.311

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• Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.

  George Eliot

  People, Crow, Suspicion

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.16

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• Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Men, Brave

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.933, Delphi Classics

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• Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Giving, Alive

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.483, Penguin

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• I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

  George Eliot

  Husband, Women, Home

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

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• There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

  George Eliot

  Hiking, Hatred, Ladders

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

  George Eliot

  Average, Feelings, Depth

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1222, ShandonPress

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• But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

  George Eliot

  Maggie, Vicissitudes, Young

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

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• Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

  George Eliot

  Perfect, Forbidden Love, Relation

  George Eliot (1861). “Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe”, p.213

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• Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Eye, Past

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.312

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• Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.

  George Eliot

  Kissing, Forgotten, Empty

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.81, Wordsworth Editions

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• She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

  George Eliot

  Hate

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.102, Wordsworth Editions

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• A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Passion, Men

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.244, London

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• It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Forbidden Love, Needs

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

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• Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Passion, First Love

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.184

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• If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Empathy, Tables

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.94, 谷月社

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• If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Looks, Looking Good

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• In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

  George Eliot

  Children, Memories, Kindness

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• Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

  George Eliot

  Stories, May, Reputation

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6581, Delphi Classics

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• What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Knowledge, Novelty

  "The Mill on the Floss". Easyread Comfort Edition,

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• Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

  George Eliot

  Women, Sorrow, Would Be

  'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 2

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