Quote

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

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
Enthusiastic
Frame
Intense
Joy
Strong
Soul
Without
Must
Bodily

More quotes by George Eliot

Image
Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.
George Eliot
Image
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.
George Eliot
Image
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
George Eliot
Image
... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.
George Eliot
Image
Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
George Eliot
Image
It must be sad to outlive aught we love.
George Eliot
Image
Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?
George Eliot
Image
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot
Image
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot
Image
It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.
George Eliot
Image
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
George Eliot
Image
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot
Image
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
George Eliot
Image
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot
Image
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
George Eliot
Image
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
George Eliot
Image
I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
George Eliot
Image
Ignorance ... is a painless evil so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
George Eliot
Image
All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.
George Eliot
Image
Quarrel? Nonsense we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
George Eliot