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George Eliot Quotes - Page 17

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People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Witty, People, Literature

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

Wise, Men, Wife

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.462, Delphi Classics

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Life, Literature, Determined

'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 3

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Heartbreak, Judging, Feelings

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.180, Penguin

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Lying, Men, Should Have

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.386, Penguin

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

Men, Knowing, Soul

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.87, Penguin

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.

Girl, Falling In Love, Love You

George Eliot (2017). “Middlemarch”, p.134, Sheba Blake Publishing

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

Hilarious, Mistake, Males

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.78, Booklassic

Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.

Hurt, People, Made

George Eliot (2006). “Silas Marner: Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.67, Prestwick House Inc

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

Selfish, Sacrifice, Judgment

George Eliot (2004). “Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.110, Sparklesoup LLC

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Communication, Feelings, Language

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

Balls, Ems, Want

"The Mill on the Floss". Book by George Eliot, 1860.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

Loving You, New Life, Pay

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1381, ShandonPress

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

Protest, Conclusion, Absolutes

George Eliot (1994). “Middlemarch”, p.69, Wordsworth Editions

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . .

Time, Spring, Flower

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.49, George Eliot

Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.

Life, Sea, Doe

But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?

Life, Good Life

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6238, Delphi Classics

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

Music, Thinking, Should Have

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

Love, Peace, Sorrow

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.227, Wordsworth Editions

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

Relationship, Marriage, Distance

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3265, Delphi Classics

The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.

Anger, Passion, Vibrations

George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.287

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief — a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Beauty, Crush, Baby

"Adam Bede".

Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.

Beauty, Lying, Curves

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill on the Floss: Top Novelist Focus”, p.391, 谷月社

We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.

Light, Air, Utterance

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.23, Booklassic

There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?

Morning, Balance, Despair

George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.316, George Eliot

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