George Eliot Quotes about Home

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Abroad, that large home of ruined reputations.

"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

George Eliot

Home, Reputation, Ruined

'Felix Holt' (1866) epilogue

Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

George Eliot

Sweet, Memories, Home

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.542, Penguin

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.

George Eliot

Stars, Home, Men

"Daniel Deronda".

As leopard feels at home with leopard.

George Eliot

Home, Leopards, Feels

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.

George Eliot

Kindness, Home, Men

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.72, Delphi Classics

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

George Eliot

Home, Hypocrisy, Abuse

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.65, Xist Publishing

Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

George Eliot

Best Friend, Determination, Home

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

George Eliot

Husband, Women, Home

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

George Eliot Quotes about Home

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