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George Eliot Quotes - Page 36

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It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

Doctors, Constitution, Trifles

George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.98

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

Regret, Grief, Affection

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3571, Delphi Classics

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.

Names, Wish, Eliot

Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

Way, Offensive, Habit

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.57

I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.

Art, Book, Writing

All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.

Children, Lying, Men

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.130, Wordsworth Editions

There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.

Ease, Scene, Born

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.178, George Eliot

There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

Done, May, Better Yourself

George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.291

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

Baptism, Conscious, Consecration

George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.251

Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

May, Majestic, Emotion

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.412, Penguin

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

Human Experience, Paradoxical, Humans

George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.663, Wordsworth Editions

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

Produce, Aim, Wanted

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.417

... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

Perfect, Imperfection, Inward

George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.178, Cambridge University Press

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

Destiny, Feelings, Firsts

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.890, ShandonPress

Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

Children, Men, Growth

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6426, Delphi Classics

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

Punishment, Rewards, Tongue

George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.

New Year, Witty, Blessing

George Eliot (1898). “Works: George Eliot's life”

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

Faults, Weight, Helping

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

Clever, Lessons, Fancy

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

Silly, Writing, People

Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.' I dare say by this time there is a want of fatty particles in his brain.

Mind, Brain, Want

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

Believe, Sight, London

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.297, 谷月社

People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.

Writing, People, Thanks

George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1859-1861”

What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.

Despair, Trying, Sap

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.407, 谷月社

... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.

Book, Suffering, Doubt

George Eliot, Margaret Harris, Judith Johnston (2000). “The Journals of George Eliot”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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