George Eliot Quotes


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"There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer /committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear."
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Pain Quotes
"She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts."
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Grief Quotes
"We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men."
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Women Quotes
"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"
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Women Quotes
"Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans --which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi."
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Travel And Tourism Quotes
"Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade"
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Trade Quotes
"Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better."
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Thoughts And Thinking Quotes
"Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day."
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Thoughts And Thinking Quotes
"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?"
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Smiles Quotes
"Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion."
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave"
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress"
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Progress Quotes
"It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable."
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Poverty And The Poor Quotes
"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."
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Poet Quotes
"Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience."
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Perspective Quotes
"Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!"
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Perspective Quotes
"With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame."
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Past Quotes
"Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite."
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Passion Quotes
"There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear."
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Pain Quotes
"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."
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Music Quotes

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