George Eliot Quotes - Page 41

• Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

  George Eliot

  Fate, Arrows, Breasts

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.438

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• The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Tree, Golden

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2704, ShandonPress

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• Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

  George Eliot

  Witty, Dull, Deeper

  George Eliot “Poems”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Where you have friends you should not go to inns.

  George Eliot

  Inns, Should

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.3620, ShandonPress

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• Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.

  George Eliot

  Prayer, Wish, Ends

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4230, Delphi Classics

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• Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

  George Eliot

  Light, Broken, Darkness

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.350

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• What if my words Were meant for deeds.

  George Eliot

  What If, Deeds, Ifs

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4210, Delphi Classics

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• Our growing thought Makes growing revelation.

  George Eliot

  Growing, Revelations

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6138, Delphi Classics

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• Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments.

  George Eliot

  Passion, Men, Games

  "Felix Holt, the Radical". Book by George Eliot. Chapter 29, 1866.

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• I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.627, Delphi Classics

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• What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

  George Eliot

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.261, Penguin

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• I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

  George Eliot

  Hypocrisy, Atheism, World

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

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• Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?

  George Eliot

  Men, Average, Careers

  George Eliot (1883). “The Essays of George Eliot”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Taste, Infinite

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.53

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