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George Eliot Quotes - Page 29

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There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

Wrath, Answers, Rooms

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.192, Penguin

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

Running, Time, Travel

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1155, ShandonPress

It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

Trying, Distrust, Difficult

Robert Coles, George Eliot, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (2007). “Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life”, p.18, Modern Library

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Busybodies

GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.435

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

Ideas, Atheism, Belief

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

Motherhood, Heat, Force

George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.224

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

Long, Shadow, Dying

George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.58

For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Character, Self, Mind

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

Husband, Men, Said

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.109, Penguin

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

Fall, Dark, Men

George Eliot (2006). “Silas Marner: Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.47, Prestwick House Inc

[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

Venting, Emotion, Easier

George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.105

I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.

God, Humble, Soul

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.133, Wordsworth Editions

We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

Judging, Secret, Sin

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3684, Delphi Classics

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

Mind, Desire, Arriving

George Eliot (1875). “Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.24

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Honesty, Law, People

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

Children, Men, Needs

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.170, Wordsworth Editions

Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

Good Luck, Boys, Opportunity

George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.205, 谷月社

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

Compassion, Years, Fire

George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.544, George Eliot

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Children, Pain, Ignorance

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.109, ShandonPress

That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger-not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.

Funny, Husband, Wife

George Eliot (2004). “Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.113, Sparklesoup LLC

I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

Blessing, Thinking, Bored

George Eliot (2015). “Daniel Deronda”, p.444, Booklassic

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

Men, Joy, Forever

George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.148

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

Love, Strong, Conceited

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2804, Delphi Classics

There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

Dark, Clouds, Rivers

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1045, Wordsworth Editions

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

Self, Vision, Height

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.165, Booklassic

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