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George Eliot Quotes - Page 23

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If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great

If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.

Dog, Mean, Justice

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.590

... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy to us. With that renunciation for ourselves which age inevitably brings, we get more freedom of soul to enter into the life of others; what we can never learn they will know, and the gladness which is a departed sunlight to us is rising with the strength of morning to them.

Morning, Joy, Soul

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.603

Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.

Writing, Self, Answers

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.671

The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the world. And my sense of desolation increases. Each day seems a new beginning -- a new acquaintance with grief.

Grief, New Beginnings, Each Day

George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.348, Cambridge University Press

I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.

Pain, Feelings, Paradise

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6988, Delphi Classics

... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.

Husband, Tired, Wife

But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?

May, Handsome, Lovable

GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.152

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

Stupidity, Social, Unendurable

George Eliot (2007). “Middlemarch”, p.579, Collector's Library

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

Feelings, His Love, Speak

George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.68

Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

Love, Mystery, Divine

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.35, Xist Publishing

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

Thinking, Hardship, Pretending

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.99, Penguin

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

Lasts, Moments, Critical

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.333, Penguin

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.

Integrity, Ashamed, Doing Right

To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.

Rivers, Soul, Receptive

George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.185

I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in the library at Offendene, but there is nothing readable. The leaves all stick together and smell musty. I wish I could write books to amuse myself, as you can! How delightful it must be to write books after one's own taste instead of reading other people's! Home-made books must be so nice.

Nice, Book, Reading

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.37, 谷月社

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

People, Speak, Enough

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.84, Penguin

Animals are such agreeable friends.

Animal

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

Easy, Difficult, Motive

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

Mind, Well Known, Conviction

GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.300

I not only want to be loved, I want to be told that I'm loved.

Want

Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

Errors, Form, Humans

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

Years, Expectations, Vain

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.50, 谷月社

Education is an asset no man can take away.

Men, Assets

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Friends, Thinking, Fiber

George Eliot (2010). “The Works of George Eliot”, General Books

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Opportunity, Politics, Vices

George Eliot (2010). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.549, The Floating Press

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