Quote

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.

George Eliot

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
Editor
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Translator
Writer
Mary Anne Evans
Mary Ann Evans
Marian Evans
Mary Anne Evans Cross
Mary Anne Cross
Would
September
Autumn
Autumns
Seeking
Equinox
Bird
Wedded
Fall
Successive
Nature
October
Earth
November
Soul
Delicious

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.
George Eliot
Image
If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.
George Eliot
Image
We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
George Eliot
Image
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
George Eliot
Image
Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.
George Eliot
Image
How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?
George Eliot
Image
Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.
George Eliot
Image
But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
George Eliot
Image
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot
Image
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
George Eliot
Image
Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
George Eliot
Image
In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.
George Eliot
Image
Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families it's the safe side for madness to dip on.
George Eliot
Image
It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
George Eliot
Image
It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
George Eliot
Image
There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.
George Eliot
Image
This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.
George Eliot
Image
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
George Eliot
Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.
George Eliot
Image
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.
George Eliot