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George Eliot Quotes - Page 11

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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Beauty, Eggs, Hopeful

George Eliot (1910). “Works of George Eliot”

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Life, Numbers, Obscurity

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch - A Study of Provincial Life -”, p.367, Read Books Ltd

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

Rivers, Waiting, Feelings

George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.152, London

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

Pain, Memories, Compassion

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6067, Delphi Classics

Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.

Giving, Trouble, Easy

George Eliot (2013). “The Complete Novels of George Eliot: Adam Bede + The Lifted Veil + The Mill on the Floss + Silas Marner + Romola + Brother Jacob + Felix Holt the Radical + Middlemarch + Daniel Deronda”, p.2278, e-artnow

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

Women, Men, Be Good

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.100, Penguin

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

Failure, Air, People

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.322, George Eliot

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

Self, Achievement, Looks

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.3538, ShandonPress

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

God, Religious, Hands

'Adam Bede' (1859) ch.42

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Love, Life, Valentines Day

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.615, 谷月社

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Stars, Literature, May

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1969, ShandonPress

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

Expectations, Remember, Born

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, Penguin

Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

Justice, Kingdoms, Facts

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6233, Delphi Classics

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

Opportunity, Men, Use

"The Sad Fortunes Of The Reverend Amos Barton".

Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

Sweet, Memories, Home

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.542, Penguin

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.

Stars, Home, Men

"Daniel Deronda".

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

Jewels, Color, Jewelry

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2657, ShandonPress

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.

Mother, Moving, Animal

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.15

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

Lips, Pity, Divine

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3792, Delphi Classics

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

Lying, Past, Should Have

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.550, George Eliot

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

Expectations, Looks, Way

George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.136

Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.

Men, Perception, Mind

George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.45, 谷月社

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

Cheating, Children, Play

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.90, Wordsworth Editions

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

Mean, Two, Dubious

George Eliot “Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2”, Lulu.com

Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.

Missing, Comfort, Cushions

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.429, Wordsworth Editions

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