George Eliot Citations
George Eliot: Citations en anglais
George Eliot livre Daniel Deronda
Source: Daniel Deronda
“I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.”
George Eliot livre The Mill on the Floss
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds …”
George Eliot livre Adam Bede
Source: Adam Bede (1859)
Contexte: Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds...
“Don't judge a book by its cover”
George Eliot livre The Mill on the Floss
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
George Eliot livre Middlemarch
Source: Middlemarch
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
George Eliot livre Middlemarch
Source: Middlemarch (1871)
“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”
George Eliot livre Middlemarch
Source: Middlemarch
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.”
George Eliot livre Middlemarch
Source: Middlemarch
“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.”
George Eliot livre The Mill on the Floss
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”
George Eliot livre The Mill on the Floss
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”
George Eliot livre Middlemarch
Source: Middlemarch
George Eliot livre Middlemarch
Source: Middlemarch (1871), Chapter 1 (misprinted as "Some people did" in some editions, such as Penguin Signet Classics).
“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
George Eliot livre The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”
George Eliot livre Middlemarch
Source: Middlemarch
“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”
George Eliot livre Silas Marner
Source: Silas Marner
