Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultier
1819 - 1880. Mary Ann Evans, better known as George Eliot. English novelist, author of "Daniel Deronda", "Middlemarch", "The Mill on the Floss".
1. "Whatever limits us we call Fate."
source: "The Conduct of Life"
Categories: Destiny and Fate
2. "What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
source: "Middlemarch"
Categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Trust
3. "We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it."
source: "The Mill on the Floss"
Categories: Youth and Age
4. "Those who trust us educate us."
Categories: Trust -:- Education
5. "These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless."
source: "The Mill on the Floss"
Categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia -:- Youth and Age
6. "There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side."
source: "Daniel Deronda"
Categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Memory
7. "The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature."
source: "Silas Marner"
Categories: Freedom and Servitude
8. "The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families."
source: "Silas Marner"
Categories: Health and Alcohol
9. "The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world."
source: "Daniel Deronda"
Categories: Success and Fame -:- Work and Laziness
10. "Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly."
source: "The Mill on the Floss"
Categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia
11. "Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."
source: "Adam Bede"
Categories: Human
12. "Nature repairs her ravages, - repairs them with her sunshine, and with human labor."
source: "The Mill on the Floss"
Categories: Nature and Animals -:- Work and Laziness
13. "More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."
source: "The Mill on the Floss"
Categories: Human -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
14. "Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honeymoon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness."
source: "Middlemarch"
Categories: Marriage
15. "Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity."
source: "Adam Bede"
Categories: Reality and Imagination
16. "I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."
source: "The Mill on the Floss"
Categories: Marriage -:- Woman and Man -:- Family and Loneliness
17. "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."
source: "Adam Bede"
Categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Various
18. "High achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes."
source: "The Mill on the Floss"
Categories: Success and Fame
19. "High achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes."
source: "The Mill on the Floss"
Categories: Happiness
20. "Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker."
source: "Daniel Deronda"
Categories: Oration and Silence -:- Manners and Ethics
21. "But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
source: "Middlemarch"
Categories: Optimism and Hope -:- Pain and Tears
22. "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact."
Categories: Oration and Silence
23. "Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticism."
source: "Scenes of Clerical Life"
Categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Nature and Animals -:- Question and Problem
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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