Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.
George Eliot
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Precious
Fist
Blow
Blows
Ought
Fists
Ready
Negativity
Give
Receiving
May
Contempt
Giving
Holding
Mind
Shut
Clenched
More quotes by George Eliot
The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
George Eliot
Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.
George Eliot
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?
George Eliot
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
George Eliot
Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly
George Eliot
O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!
George Eliot
Those who trust us educate us.
George Eliot
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
George Eliot
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
George Eliot
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
George Eliot
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
George Eliot
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.
George Eliot
... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.
George Eliot
Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me
George Eliot
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.
George Eliot
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George Eliot
But certain winds will make men's temper bad.
George Eliot
It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.
George Eliot
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
George Eliot
It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
George Eliot
