George Eliot Quotes - Page 36

• It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

  George Eliot

  Doctors, Constitution, Trifles

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.98

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• O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

  George Eliot

  Regret, Grief, Affection

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3571, Delphi Classics

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• I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.

  George Eliot

  Names, Wish, Eliot

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• Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

  George Eliot

  Way, Offensive, Habit

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.57

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• I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.

  George Eliot

  Art, Book, Writing

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• All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Children, Lying, Men

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.130, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.

  George Eliot

  Ease, Scene, Born

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.178, George Eliot

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• There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

  George Eliot

  Done, May, Better Yourself

  George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.291

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• There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

  George Eliot

  Baptism, Conscious, Consecration

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

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• Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

  George Eliot

  May, Majestic, Emotion

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.412, Penguin

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• Human experience is usually paradoxical.

  George Eliot

  Human Experience, Paradoxical, Humans

  George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.663, Wordsworth Editions

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• What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

  George Eliot

  Produce, Aim, Wanted

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.417

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• ... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

  George Eliot

  Perfect, Imperfection, Inward

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.178, Cambridge University Press

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• In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

  George Eliot

  Destiny, Feelings, Firsts

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.890, ShandonPress

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• Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

  George Eliot

  Children, Men, Growth

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6426, Delphi Classics

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• Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

  George Eliot

  Punishment, Rewards, Tongue

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

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• Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.

  George Eliot

  New Year, Witty, Blessing

  George Eliot (1898). “Works: George Eliot's life”

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• ... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

  George Eliot

  Faults, Weight, Helping

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• If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

  George Eliot

  Clever, Lessons, Fancy

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• The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

  George Eliot

  Silly, Writing, People

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• Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.' I dare say by this time there is a want of fatty particles in his brain.

  George Eliot

  Mind, Brain, Want

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• ... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Sight, London

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.297, 谷月社

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• People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.

  George Eliot

  Writing, People, Thanks

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1859-1861”

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• What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.

  George Eliot

  Despair, Trying, Sap

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.407, 谷月社

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• ... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.

  George Eliot

  Book, Suffering, Doubt

  George Eliot, Margaret Harris, Judith Johnston (2000). “The Journals of George Eliot”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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