Quotes About George Eliot

If you put him a-horseback on politics, I warn you of the consequences. It was all very well to ride on sticks at home and call them ideas.

Hence the mere chance of seeing Will occasionally was like a lunette opened in the wall of her prison, giving her a glimpse of the sunny air; and this pleasure began to nullify her original alarm at what her husband might think about the introduction of Will as her uncle's guest. On

as Voltaire said, incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic.

Mrs. Renfrew, the colonel's widow, was not only unexceptionable in point of breeding, but also interesting on the ground of her complaint, which puzzled the doctors, and seemed clearly a case wherein the fulness of professional knowledge might need the supplement of quackery.

In short, woman was a problem which, since Mr Brooke's mind felt blank before it, could be hardly less complicated than the revolutions of an irregular solid.

his lips were curled with that incipient smile which is apt to accompany agreeable recollections.

A thorn in her spirit, a pink-and-white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the 'Pilgrim's Progress'.

But at present this caution against a too hasty judgment interests me more in relation to Mr. Casaubon than to his young cousin. If

I rather like a haughty manner. I cannot endure a rattling young man.

She says, he is a great soul.—A great bladder for dried peas to rattle in! said Mrs. Cadwallader.

Indeed, she herself was accustomed to think that entire freedom from the necessity of behaving agreeably was included in the Almighty's intentions about families.

To people accustomed to reason about the forms in which their religious feeling has incorporated itself, it is difficult to enter into that simple, untaught state of mind in which the form and the feeling have never been severed by an act of reflection.

Bulstrode, after a moment's hesitation, took his hat from the floor and slowly rose

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery-book.

Still, I repeat, there was a general impression that Lydgate was something rather more uncommon than any general practitioner in Middlemarch. And

The blessed work of helping the world forward happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.

T]he Meyricks, whose various knowledge had been acquired by the irregular foraging to which clever girls have usually been reduced...

Let us bind love with duty; for duty is the love of law; and law is the nature of the Eternal.' So we bound ourselves.

Good phrases are surely, and ever were, very commendable. —Justice Shallow.

Even in 1831 Lowick was at peace, not more agitated by Reform than by the solemn tenor of the Sunday sermon. The

A man's mind–what there is of it–has always the advantage of being masculine,–as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,–and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.

I am telling the history of very simple people, who had never had any illuminating doubts as to personal integrity and honor.

People can easily take the sacred word duty as a name for what they desire any one else to do.

I never could look on it in the light of a recreation to have my ears teased with measured noises," said Mr Casaubon.