George Eliot Quotes about Imagination

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Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

George Eliot

Dog, Wall, Imagination

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.59, Wordsworth Editions

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

George Eliot

Travel, Memories, Imagination

George Eliot, Elma Fraser Stuart (1909). “Letters from George Eliot to Elma Stuart, 1872-1880”

When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

George Eliot

Life, Clouds, Imagination

George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.259

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

George Eliot

Lying, Clouds, Imagination

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.330, 谷月社

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

George Eliot

Imagination, Doubt, Fuel

George Eliot “Theophrastus Such”, Jazzybee Verlag

There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs.

George Eliot

Men, Race, Imagination

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6957, Delphi Classics

A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.

George Eliot

Mean, Men, Imagination