George Eliot Quotes - Page 34

• Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

  George Eliot

  Wings, Our Words, Literature

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.437

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• Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

  George Eliot

  Truth, Flavour, Rough

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3961, Delphi Classics

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• Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

  George Eliot

  Love, Vanity, Literature

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.107, Open Road Media

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• But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

  George Eliot

  Philosophy, Mean, Experience

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.683, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.

  George Eliot

  Love Is, Air, Blue

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4066, Delphi Classics

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• Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.

  George Eliot

  Summer, Winter, Wind

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4101, Delphi Classics

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• God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Firsts, Immortality

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• It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

  George Eliot

  Men, Thinking, Atheism

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• A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Moral, Judgment

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• Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Impossible, New Testament

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• When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Thinking, Soul

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.48, 谷月社

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• Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Powerful, Growth

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.4704, ShandonPress

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• He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

  George Eliot

  Leadership, Command

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• Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

  George Eliot

  Music, Ears, Pipe

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.142, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

  George Eliot

  Music, Grief, Men

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1224, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Sunshine, Labor

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

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• I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

  George Eliot

  Trust, Men, Deeds

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.211

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• The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

  George Eliot

  Water, Cheerful, Months

  George Eliot (1852). “Middlemarch”, p.230

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• A woman mixed of such fine elements
  That were all virtue and religion dead
  She'd make them newly, being what she was.

  George Eliot

  Women, Elements, Virtue

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.403

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• To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

  George Eliot

  Women, Thinking, Winning

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.529, Broadview Press

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• We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Giving, Justice

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.240, ShandonPress

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• the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

  George Eliot

  Church, Watches, Band

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.42, 谷月社

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• the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Inspiration, Growing

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.574, George Eliot

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• It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

  George Eliot

  Men, Weakness, Sacred

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.282

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• We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

  George Eliot

  Disappointment, Breakfast, Men And Women

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.291

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