George Elliot > Quotes

“I live too much with the dead. My mind is something like the ghost of an ancient, wandering about the world and trying mentally to construct it as it used to be, in spite of ruin and confusing changes.”
― George Elliot, Middlemarch

“We all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.”
― George Elliot, Middlemarch

“Hay naturalezas en las cuales, si nos aman, somos conscientes de tener una especie de bautismo por su pura creencia en nosotros; y nuestros pecados se convierten en la peor clase de sacrilegio que derrumba el invisible altar de la confianza.”
― George Elliot, Middlemarch

“Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another”
― George Elliot, Middlemarch

“It is never too late to be what you might have been”
― George Elliot

“The souls by nature pitch’d too high,
By suffering plung’d too low”
― George Elliot

“It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive; when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves floodmarks which are never reached again.”
― George Elliot, Mill on the Floss

“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
― George Elliot

“They were walking hand in hand, looking at each other; Maggie, indeed, was hurrying along, for she felt it time to be gone. But the sense that their parting was near made her more anxious lest she should have unintentionally left some painful impression on Philip’s mind. It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive; when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves floodmarks which are never reached again.”
― George Elliot, Mill on the Floss