George Eliot nejznámější citáty
George Eliot: Citáty o životě
George Eliot citáty a výroky
George Eliot: Citáty anglicky
“I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.”
Zdroj: The Mill on the Floss
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds …”
Zdroj: Adam Bede (1859)
Kontext: Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds...
“Don't judge a book by its cover”
Zdroj: The Mill on the Floss
“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
Zdroj: Middlemarch
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
Zdroj: Middlemarch (1871)
“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”
Zdroj: Middlemarch
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.”
Zdroj: Middlemarch
“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.”
Zdroj: The Mill on the Floss
“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”
Zdroj: The Mill on the Floss
“For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”
Zdroj: Middlemarch
Zdroj: Middlemarch (1871), Chapter 1 (misprinted as "Some people did" in some editions, such as Penguin Signet Classics).
“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”
Zdroj: Middlemarch
“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”
Zdroj: Silas Marner