George Eliot słynne cytaty
George Eliot Cytaty o ludziach
Źródło: Deborah G. Felder, 100 kobiet, które miały największy wpływ na dzieje ludzkości, wyd. Świat Książki, Warszawa 1998, ISBN 8371296665, tłum. Maciej Świerkocki, s. 91.
George Eliot cytaty
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact. (ang.) <br class="br">Źródło: Impressions of Theophrastus Such http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10762/10762-h/10762-h.htm, 1879
George Eliot: Cytaty po angielsku
George Eliot książka Daniel Deronda
Źródło: Daniel Deronda
“I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.”
George Eliot książka The Mill on the Floss
Źródło: The Mill on the Floss
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds …”
George Eliot książka Adam Bede
Źródło: Adam Bede (1859)
Kontekst: Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds...
“Don't judge a book by its cover”
George Eliot książka The Mill on the Floss
Źródło: The Mill on the Floss
“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
George Eliot książka Middlemarch
Źródło: Middlemarch
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
George Eliot książka Middlemarch
Źródło: Middlemarch (1871)
“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”
George Eliot książka Middlemarch
Źródło: Middlemarch
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.”
George Eliot książka Middlemarch
Źródło: Middlemarch
“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.”
George Eliot książka The Mill on the Floss
Źródło: The Mill on the Floss
“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”
George Eliot książka The Mill on the Floss
Źródło: The Mill on the Floss
“For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”
George Eliot książka Middlemarch
Źródło: Middlemarch
George Eliot książka Middlemarch
Źródło: 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 książka 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 książka Middlemarch
Źródło: Middlemarch
“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”
George Eliot książka Silas Marner
Źródło: Silas Marner