George Eliot Quotes about Beauty

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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

George Eliot

Beauty, Eggs, Hopeful

George Eliot (1910). “Works of George Eliot”

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

George Eliot

Beauty, Beautiful Women, Temptation

"Middlemarch".

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

George Eliot

Beauty, Lovely, Lovely Woman

GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.298

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. 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 and to engage in conscious mischief — a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

George Eliot

Beauty, Crush, Baby

"Adam Bede".

Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.

George Eliot

Beauty, Lying, Curves

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill on the Floss: Top Novelist Focus”, p.391, 谷月社

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

George Eliot

Beauty, Language, Speak

George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.212

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.

George Eliot

Beauty, Baby, Order

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