George Eliot Quotes — Page 27

George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

Hopeful

“There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.”

Youth Eras Something Better

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

Funny

“As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.”

People Mind Gossip

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Creative

“Steady work turns genius to a loom.”

Genius Turns

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Happy

“When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.”

Age Reason

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Sad

“For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.”

Self Passion Sorry

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Sad

“It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.”

Sex Facts Inferiority

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Proud

“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.”

Looks Pride Proud

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Melancholic

“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”

Fall Air Autumn

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Creative

“They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.”

Suffering Women Grace

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Thoughtful

“In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.”

Humans Human Nature Exception

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Grateful

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

Pride Witty Vanity

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Creative

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.”

Hands Soul Feelings

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