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George Eliot Quotes - Page 31

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Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

Heart, People, Sorrow

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.332, Delphi Classics

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

Time, Years, Mindfulness

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.146, Wordsworth Editions

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

Time, Men, Ties

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.104, Penguin

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

Kissing, Oblivion

GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.219

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Eggs, Silence, Doe

'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 15

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Pride, Men, Fault Finders

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Sports, Ignorance, Knowledge

George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda”, p.38

It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

Kindness, Giving, Grease

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Faith, Errors, Feelings

George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.640, Broadview Press

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

World, Poverty, Helping

"Silas Marner".

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

Good Luck, Men, Unlucky

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.374

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

Marriage, Wedding, Sight

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.503, Wordsworth Editions

I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

Heaven, Public Opinion, Belief

Robert Coles, George Eliot, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (2007). “Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life”, p.31, Modern Library

I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Mean, Blessing, Thinking

George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.400, Broadview Press

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

Doors, Experts, Tools

George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.22

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him. . . .

Men, Decision, Age

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.

Pain, Grief, Baptism

"Adam Bede". Book by George Eliot, 1859.

Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.

Deeds, Action, Fetters

George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. Book 1, Miss Brooke. 1[,1]”, p.52

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

Beauty, Sweet, Heart

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3376, Delphi Classics

Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.

Archer, Perfect, Deer

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.439

All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.

New Experiences, Childhood, Would Be

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1676, ShandonPress

It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.

Color, Scent, Strange

George Eliot (1852). “Middlemarch”, p.15

What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.

Opportunity, Air, Satisfaction

George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.24

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

Men, Vegetables, Desire

George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.168

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

Men, Escaping, Docks

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.290

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