George Eliot Quotes - Page 40

• Hopes have precarious life.
  They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off
  In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Growth, Vigorous

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4195, Delphi Classics

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• Women know no perfect love:
  Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong;
  Man clings because the being whom he loves
  Is weak and needs him.

  George Eliot

  Life, Strong, Love Is

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.459

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• Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

  George Eliot

  Children, Hero, Believe

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• It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

  George Eliot

  Fear, Acceptance, Self

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.32

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• I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Lying, Religion

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.429

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• There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

  George Eliot

  Patience, Philosophy, Wrath

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.311, Booklassic

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• It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Caring, Men, Feelings

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1625, Delphi Classics

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• Hear Everything and judge for yourself

  George Eliot

  Judging, Judgement

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.295, Penguin

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• Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

  George Eliot

  Christmas, Fashion, Hair

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.179, George Eliot

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• Go forward with joyful confidence.

  George Eliot

  Anticipation, Joyful

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• What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Men, Use

  George Eliot (2016). “The Sad Fortunes Of The Reverend Amos Barton”, p.56, George Eliot

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• You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

  George Eliot

  Fear, Eye, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

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• The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Dew, Earth

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.315

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• Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Storm, Half

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3429, Delphi Classics

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• They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.

  George Eliot

  Giving, Good Woman, Merit

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.584, Booklassic

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• When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.

  George Eliot

  Gratitude, Escaping, Matter

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.244, Penguin

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• I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.

  George Eliot

  Real, Grief, Thinking

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.145

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• It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiæ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Powerful, Passion

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• Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours we can watch over its happiness, bring comfort where hardship was, and over memories of privation and suffering open the sweetest fountains of joy.

  George Eliot

  Love, Memories, Blessing

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.693, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.

  George Eliot

  Math, Men, Fire

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

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• Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.

  George Eliot

  Running, Tongue, Clock

  George Eliot (1862). “Adam Bede ... Tenth edition”, p.458

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• It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Doubt, Horizon

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1328, Delphi Classics

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• When you see fair hair Be pitiful.

  George Eliot

  Hair, Fairs, Pitiful

  George Eliot (2013). “The Complete Works of George Eliot”, p.3003, e-artnow

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• Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.

  George Eliot

  Violin, Kind, Fame

  George Eliot (1885). “Poems: Together with Brother Jacob and The Lifted Veil”

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• Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

  George Eliot

  Men, Mad, Monsters

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.135

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