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.)
Źródło: Impressions of Theophrastus Such http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10762/10762-h/10762-h.htm, 1879
George Eliot: Cytaty po angielsku
“I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.”
Źródło: The Mill on the Floss
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds …”
Źródło: Adam Bede (1859)
Kontekst: Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds...
“Don't judge a book by its cover”
Źródło: The Mill on the Floss
“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
Źródło: Middlemarch
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
Źródło: Middlemarch (1871)
“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”
Źródło: Middlemarch
“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!”
Middlemarch (1871)
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.”
Źródło: Middlemarch
“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.”
Źródło: The Mill on the Floss
“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”
Źródło: The Mill on the Floss
“For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”
Źródło: 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.”
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”
Źródło: Middlemarch
“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”
Źródło: Silas Marner