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George Eliot Quotations

                                      

1

Creeds of terror.

Spanish Gypsy. Book i.

2

A serious ape whom none take seriously, Obliged in this fool’s world to earn his nuts By hard buffoonery.

Spanish Gypsy. Book i.

3

His smile is sweetened by his gravity.

Spanish Gypsy. Book i.

4

Certain winds will make men’s temper bad.

Spanish Gypsy. Book i.

5

Sad as a wasted passion.

Spanish Gypsy. Book i.

6

Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.

Spanish Gypsy. Book i.

7

Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.

Spanish Gypsy. Book i.

8

Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature’s funeral cries For what has been and is not.

Spanish Gypsy. Book i.

9

Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

A College Breakfast-party.

10

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

Poems: Oh may I join the Choir invisible.

11

It’s but little good you’ll do watering last year’s crops.

Adam Bede. Chap. xviii.

12

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. 1

Adam Bede. Chap. xxxiii.

13

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Romola. Book iii. Chap. xvii.

14

Men’s men: gentle or simpl, they’re much of a muchness.

Daniel Deronda. Book iv. Chap. xxxi. Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade. George Eliot Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. George Eliot I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. George Eliot - More quotations on: [Music] Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. George Eliot It's never too late to be who you might have been. George Eliot One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. George Eliot - More quotations on: [Money] [Giving] The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. George Eliot The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. George Eliot The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. George Eliot The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. George Eliot - More quotations on: [Decisions] There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots. George Eliot Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch.1 Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. George Eliot, 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857 - More quotations on: [Pets] The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866 Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. George Eliot, Middlemarch Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness. George Eliot, Romola, 1863 Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life - Amos Barton Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. George Eliot, Silas Marner (1861) There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860 - More quotations on: [Music] Quote Author Source Email Quote . . . for the stress of circumstances, Fred felt, was sharpening his acuteness and endowing him with all the constructive power of suspicion. George Eliot Middlemarch . . . what loneliness is more lonely than distrust? George Eliot Middlemarch Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? George Eliot Middlemarch "People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors." George Eliot Middlemarch Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love . . . George Eliot The Mill on the Floss Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. George Eliot Middlemarch "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?" George Eliot Middlemarch One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! George Eliot Middlemarch "I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs, and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." George Eliot The Mill on the Floss Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit? George Eliot Silas Marner

When Squire Cass's standing dishes diminished in plenty and freshness, his guests had nothing to do but to walk a little higher up the village to Mr. Osgood's, at the Orchards, and they found hams and chines uncut, pork-pies with the scent of the fire in them, spun butter in all its freshness--everything, in fact, that appetites at leisure could desire, in perhaps greater perfection, though not in greater abundance, than at Squire Cass's.	George Eliot	Silas Marner
. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .	George Eliot	Silas Marner
That big muscular frame of his held plenty of animal courage, but helped him to no decision when the dangers to be braved were such as could neither be knocked down nor throttled.	George Eliot	Silas Marner
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature . . .	George Eliot	Silas Marner
A man will tell you that he has worked in a mine for forty years unhurt by an accident as a reason why he should apprehend no danger, though the roof is beginning to sink . . .	George Eliot	Silas Marner
Instead of trying to still his fears, he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all, that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come . . .	George Eliot	Silas Marner
He had a sense that the old man meant to be good-natured and neighbourly; but the kindness fell on him as sunshine falls on the wretched--he had no heart to taste it, and felt that it was very far off him.	George Eliot	Silas Marner
. . . but she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.	George Eliot	Silas Marner
Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.	George Eliot	Silas Marner
She was perfectly quiet now, but not asleep--only soothed by sweet porridge and warmth into that wide-gazing calm which makes us older human beings, with our inward turmoil, feel a certain awe in the presence of a little child, such as we feel before some quiet majesty or beauty in the earth or sky--before a steady glowing planet, or a full-flowered eglantine, or the bending trees over a silent pathway.	George Eliot	Silas Marner

"Ah," said Dolly, with soothing gravity, "it's like the night and the morning, and the sleeping and the waking, and the rain and the harvest--one goes and the other comes, and we know nothing how nor where. We may strive and scrat and fend, but it's little we can do arter all--the big things come and go wi' no striving o' our'n--they do, that they do . . ."	George Eliot	Silas Marner
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.	George Eliot	Silas Marner
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger--not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.	George Eliot	Silas Marner
"It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop."	George Eliot	Adam Bede
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.	George Eliot	Adam Bede
"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves."	George Eliot	Adam Bede
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds . . .	George Eliot	Adam Bede
"Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before--consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. "	George Eliot	Adam Bede
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.	George Eliot	Daniel Deronda
"Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness."	George Eliot	Daniel Deronda

. . . vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return . . .	George Eliot	Daniel Deronda
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.	George Eliot	Daniel Deronda
. . . ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.	George Eliot	Daniel Deronda
"I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."	George Eliot	Daniel Deronda
. . . 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 cu of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.	George Eliot	Daniel Deronda
"There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side."	George Eliot	Daniel Deronda
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us . . .	George Eliot	Middlemarch
"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	The Mill on the Floss
"I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them."	George Eliot	The Mill on the Floss
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.	George Eliot	The Mill on the Floss

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