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George Eliot Quotes - Page 15

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We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

Fear, Fearless, Danger

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.942, Delphi Classics

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

Clever, Stupidity, Pigeons

George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.265, Courier Corporation

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

Food, Thinking, Cooking

GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.292

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.

Shoes, Boots, Trouble

George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.123

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

Passion, Fire, Fuel

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.191

The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

Patience, Passion, Fire

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.67

We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.

Waiting, Providence

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.80

The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.

Hero, Years, Land

Daniel Deronda bk. 6, ch. 42 (1876)

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

Belief

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.819, George Eliot

As leopard feels at home with leopard.

Home, Leopards, Feels

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

Pain, Sorrow, Ears

George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.14

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

Running, Thinking, Entitlement

George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.72

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

Men, Ideas, Ifs

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.4079, ShandonPress

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

People, Might, Neighbor

1871-2 Middlemarch, bk.1, ch.1.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.

Costumes, Incidents, Repeats

George Eliot (189?). “Scenes of clerical life”

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

Writing, Conviction, Social

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.565

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

Mistake, Atheism, Form

'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 1, ch. 10

What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.

Mean, Feet, Bachelors

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.409, Wordsworth Editions

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

Heart, Sadness, Ties

George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.34, London

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

Beauty, Beautiful Women, Temptation

"Middlemarch".

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

Life, Good Life, Affection

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.362, 谷月社

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

Peace, Shadow, Sin

George Eliot (1889). “Mill on the Floss ; Silas Marner ; The Lifted Veil ; and Brother Jacob”

Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.

Hate, Fire, Light

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.264, ShandonPress

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

Hope, Women, Expectations

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.16

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

Time, Needs

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.153, Booklassic

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