Top 100 Quotes About Eliot
#1. I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I mean, George Eliot is my absolute heroine.
Julia Glass
#2. But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.
T. S. Eliot
#3. Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George Eliot
#4. My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.
Jacob Rothschild
#5. The days of chivalry are not gone, notwithstanding Burke's grand dirge over them; they live still in that far-off worship paid by many a youth and man to the woman of whom he never dreams that he shall touch so much as her little finger or the hem of her robe.
George Eliot
#6. We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
George Eliot
#7. It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.
George Eliot
#8. Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.
George Eliot
#9. It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
George Eliot
#10. The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence
can never retract.
by this, and only this, we have existed.
T. S. Eliot
#11. We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds, ... for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
T. S. Eliot
#12. The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.
T. S. Eliot
#14. No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot
#15. Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.
T. S. Eliot
#16. Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?
George Eliot
#17. Confidence is consistency of thinking about what is possible and how to make it possible.
John Eliot
#18. Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.
T. S. Eliot
#20. He bore the same sort of resemblance to his mother that our loving memory of a friend's face often bears to the face itself: the lines were all more generous, the smile brighter, the expression heartier. If
George Eliot
#21. When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes
many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy.
It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money.
War is our century's prostitution.
T. S. Eliot
#22. I tell them that the only peace you find up on a mountain is the peace you bring with you.
Eliot Pattison
#23. It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.
T. S. Eliot
#24. Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.
Eliot Ness
#25. Kepler reportedly said, amid the massacres of religious wars, the laws of elliptical motion belong to no man or principality.'17 The same could be said of music.
John Eliot Gardiner
#26. If I get one more person telling me I look like Eliot Spitzer, I'm just going to have to play the guy one day.
Michael Kelly
#28. Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it used to be.
George Eliot
#29. While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.
Eliot Engel
#31. I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
T. S. Eliot
#32. Pretend-dating Gray Porter is going to be like pretend-dating a rainbow. Everyone looks at him all the time.
Anne Eliot
#33. a certain consciousness of our entire past and our imagined future blends itself with all our moments of keen sensibility. And
George Eliot
#34. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
#35. But, for the point of wisdom, I would choose / To know the mind that stirs between the wings / Of bees ...
George Eliot
#36. Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.
George Eliot
#37. We hunt the White Stag, like Quentin did. We catch it or shoot it or whatever you do with it. We get three wishes. We wish Fillory would last forever and not die. Done. Mischief managed." Eliot
Lev Grossman
#38. Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.
George Eliot
#39. Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say
George Eliot
#40. Even in 1831 Lowick was at peace, not more agitated by Reform than by the solemn tenor of the Sunday sermon. The
George Eliot
#41. The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.
George Eliot
#42. Was never true love loved in vain, For truest love is highest gain.
George Eliot
#43. What we call the 'just possible' is sometimes true and the thing we find it easier to believe is grossly false.
George Eliot
#44. Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
T. S. Eliot
#45. Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.
T. S. Eliot
#46. Leisure is gone,
gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.
George Eliot
#47. Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."
Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison. "You take the poetry out of everything."
"Says the man who'd just punch the haystack.
Keith R.A. DeCandido
#48. It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.
George Eliot
#49. But certain winds will make men's temper bad.
George Eliot
#50. I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
T. S. Eliot
#51. Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot
#52. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
The houses are all gone under the sea.
The dancers are all gone under the hill.
T. S. Eliot
#53. In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
George Eliot
#54. There are always people who can't forgive an able man for differing from them.
George Eliot
#55. In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
George Eliot
#56. People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes ...
George Eliot
#57. Speculative truth begins to appear but a shadow of individual minds, agreement between intellects seems unattainable, and we turn to the truth of feeling as the only universal bond of union.
George Eliot
#58. Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you
good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.
George Eliot
#59. I'm living in fiction. It's perfectly okay to be in love with any and all fictional boyfriends, even if they aren't yours.
Anne Eliot
#60. Instead of getting a soft fence against the cold, shadowy, unapplausive audience of his life, had he only given it a more substantial presence?
George Eliot
#62. It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
George Eliot
#63. Many people give the appearance of progress by shedding the prejudices and irrational postulates of one generation only to acquire those of the next.
T. S. Eliot
#64. People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.
George Eliot
#65. Charlie snorted. Sure. Insta-friends with one of the world's most famous rock stars. ZERO weirdness. Check. And you're not my type either, dude.
Anne Eliot
#66. Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.
Charles William Eliot
#67. We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a moment is room wide enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outlash of a murderous thought and the sharp bakcward stroke of repetance.
George Eliot
#68. One morning, some weeks after her arrival at Lowick, Dorothea - but why always Dorothea? Was her point of view the only possible one with regard to this marriage?
George Eliot
#69. Women know no perfect love:
Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong;
Man clings because the being whom he loves
Is weak and needs him.
George Eliot
#70. I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
George Eliot
#71. Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
George Eliot
#72. I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.
Eliot Spitzer
#73. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
George Eliot
#74. Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.
George Eliot
#75. Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.
T. S. Eliot
#76. Have never seen that her religion made any difference in her dress.
George Eliot
#77. I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.
George Eliot
#78. He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.
T. S. Eliot
#79. I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.
George Eliot
#80. I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.
Eliot Spitzer
#81. Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.
John Eliot
#82. I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.
George Eliot
#83. how hard it is to walk always in fear of hurting another who is tied to us.
George Eliot
#84. He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.
T. S. Eliot
#85. Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.
T. S. Eliot
#86. We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.
T. S. Eliot
#88. When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.
T. S. Eliot
#89. When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.
George Eliot
#91. Sister, mother
And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea,
Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.
T. S. Eliot
#92. when a man's said what he means, he'd better stop, for th' ale 'ull be none the better for stannin'. An
George Eliot
#93. Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
T. S. Eliot
#94. It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
George Eliot
#95. I'd rather be in Forks? I shop the HOB? What do these even mean?!
Anne Eliot
#96. I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
George Eliot
#97. Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out trust their skills, which is why we call this high-performance state of mind the "Trusting Mindset."
John Eliot
#98. He was unique to her among men because he's impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who's nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man.
George Eliot
#99. Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
George Eliot
#100. That was an evil terror
an ugly inmate to have found a nestling-place in Godfrey's kindly disposition; but no disposition is a security from evil wishes to a man whose happiness hangs on duplicity.
George Eliot
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