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George Eliot Quotes - Page 24

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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Jealousy, Passion, Fire

George Eliot (1994). “Middlemarch”, p.175, Wordsworth Editions

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Thinking, Nails, Decay

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

Sympathy, People, Depth

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

Art, War, Passion

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.117, Penguin

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

Strong, Pain, Taken

George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.31, Oxford Paperbacks

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.

Family, Sadness, Deep Sadness

George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.52

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Women, Stupid, Ems

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

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Kindness, Ignorant, Would Be

George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.138, ReadHowYouWant.com

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Strength, Strong, Women

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

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

Ego, Doe, Belief

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.345, Penguin

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Funny, Women, Humor

Daniel Deronda bk. 2, ch. 15 (1876)

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Life, Spiritual, Excellence

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.4128, ShandonPress

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

Expression, Literature, Indifference

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Women, Monsters, Literature

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.619, Open Road Media

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Past, Stronger, Ancestry

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

Father, Alphabet, Ends

"Mill on the Floss". Volume I,

There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. 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.

Beauty, Baby, Order

George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.72, London

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Beautiful, Struggle, Errors

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2784, Delphi Classics

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

Lying, Humility, Hands

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.633, Wordsworth Editions

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

Mom, Mother, Children

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

Education, Luck, Matter

"Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot".

Things are achieved when they are well begun.

Wells

GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.199

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

Hate, Men, Yoke

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.157

It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.

Country, Prosperity

George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.234

I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.

Giving Up, Revenge, Mean

George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.403, George Eliot

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