Quote

The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.

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
Make
Sublime
Delight
Gift
Sorrow
Speech
Felt
Uttering
Great
Pangs
Even
Truthful

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.
George Eliot
Image
Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.
George Eliot
Image
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
George Eliot
Image
Perhaps there is no time in a summer's day more cheering, than when the warmth of the sun is just beginning to triumph over the freshness of the morning--when there is just a lingering hint of early coolness to keep off languor under the delicious influence of warmth.
George Eliot
Image
Correct English is the slang of prigs.
George Eliot
Image
Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.
George Eliot
Image
No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.
George Eliot
Image
To the old, sorrow is sorrow to the young, it is despair.
George Eliot
Image
If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
George Eliot
Image
A good horse makes short miles.
George Eliot
Image
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
George Eliot
Image
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot
Image
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
George Eliot
Image
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
George Eliot
Image
There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.
George Eliot
Image
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
Image
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George Eliot
Image
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.
George Eliot
Image
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
George Eliot
Image
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
George Eliot