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George Eliot Quotes - Page 7

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Nature, Fall, Autumn

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6444, Delphi Classics

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

Men, Intellectual, Intelligence

George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.48, 谷月社

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

Running, Quality, Safe

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.47, Penguin

... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.

Stupid, Believe, Towns

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.114, Penguin

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

Love, Long, Silence

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

Self, Simplicity, Consciousness

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

Facts, Latter, Former

George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.297, Cambridge University Press

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

Inspirational, Life, Good Intentions

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.605, ShandonPress

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

Air, Stupidity, Opinion

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.30, George Eliot

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.

Literature, Too Much, Injury

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

Character, Destiny, Aphorism

The Mill on the Floss bk. 6, ch. 6 (1860)

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.

Marriage, Couple, Silence

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.615, 谷月社

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Dirty, Gossip, Rumor

'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 2, ch. 13

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Happiness, Inspiring, Perseverance

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.152, Penguin

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

Spiritual, Literature, Amusing

George Eliot (2013). “The Complete Works of George Eliot”, p.5315, e-artnow

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

Selfish, Science, Obligation

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.483, Penguin

Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it really belongs. It is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbour is good for nothing, than to enter into all the circumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion.

Nice, Blue, Mind

George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.72

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Wisdom, Disappointment, Memorable

George Eliot (2006). “Silas Marner: Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.155, Prestwick House Inc

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Hope, Pain, Live Life

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2488, Delphi Classics

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Motivational, Reality, Might

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

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

Sad, Grief, Wrestling

George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.271

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

Self, Stupidity, World

George Eliot (2007). “Middlemarch”, p.216, Collector's Library

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Relationship, Jealousy, Heart

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill on the Floss: Top Novelist Focus”, p.394, 谷月社

A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it.

Rotten, Cheese, Born

'Adam Bede' (1859) ch. 32

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Fighting, Winning, Coward

George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.27

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