George Eliot Quotes about Pride

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Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

George Eliot

Hurt, Pride, Helping

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

George Eliot

Pride, Self, Satisfaction

George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.148, Xist Publishing

I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.... I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it.

George Eliot

Work, Hate, Pride

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

George Eliot

Pride, Soul, Body

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1720, ShandonPress

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

George Eliot

Witty, Pride, Vanity

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.581, Xist Publishing

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

George Eliot

Hurt, Disappointment, Pride

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

George Eliot

Pride, Looks, Proud

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.150, ShandonPress

You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

George Eliot

Love You, Pride, Thinking

George Eliot “Middlemarch, Volume III”, Lulu.com