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George Eliot Quotes about Lying

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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Lying, Responsibility, Tolerance

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1282, Wordsworth Editions

Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Real, Lying, Heart

Middlemarch bk. 2, ch. 20 (1871 - 1872)

People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.

Lying, Thinking, Yellow

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.212, Penguin

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

Lying, Past, Should Have

George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.550, George Eliot

A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.

Women, Lying, Royal

George Eliot “Poems”, Jazzybee Verlag

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Lying, Men, Should Have

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.386, Penguin

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.

Beauty, Lying, Curves

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

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

Wisdom, Lying, Smell

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.31

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

Disappointment, Lying, Forever

George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

Wisdom, Lying, Cutting

George Eliot (2016). “The Lifted Veil”, p.23, George Eliot

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.

Lying, Clouds, Imagination

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

Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.

Lying, Mistake, Self

George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.597, Xist Publishing

Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

Wise, Lying, Reflection

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.126, Wordsworth Editions

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

Lying, Humility, Hands

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.633, Wordsworth Editions

the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.

Christian, Attitude, Lying

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

Lying, Mind, Argument

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

Particular lies may speak a general truth.

Lying, May, Speak

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.405

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

Lying, Passion, Men

George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.244, London

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.

Lying, Eye, Artist

George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.73

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

I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

Wall, Pain, Lying

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.259, Penguin

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

Religious, Lying, Religion

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.429

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