George Eliot Quotes about Reading

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It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into

It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.

George Eliot

Mother, Reading, Son

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1728, Delphi Classics

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

George Eliot

Reading, Brain, Proof

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

George Eliot

Reading, Able, Hunger

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6603, Delphi Classics

I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in the library at Offendene, but there is nothing readable. The leaves all stick together and smell musty. I wish I could write books to amuse myself, as you can! How delightful it must be to write books after one's own taste instead of reading other people's! Home-made books must be so nice.

George Eliot

Nice, Book, Reading

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.37, 谷月社

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

George Eliot

Reading, Mind, Done

George Eliot (1881). “George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals”

Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.

George Eliot

Nature, Real, Reading

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.113, Wordsworth Editions