George Eliot Berühmte Zitate
„Sag ihnen, ich habe starke Schmerzen an der linken Seite.“
Letzte Worte, 22. Dezember 1880, zu ihrem Mann John W. Cross; sie meinte die Ärzte
Original engl.: "Tell them I have a great pain in the left side."
George Eliot Zitate und Sprüche
George Eliot: Zitate auf Englisch
George Eliot buch Daniel Deronda
Quelle: Daniel Deronda
“I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.”
George Eliot buch The Mill on the Floss
Quelle: The Mill on the Floss
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds …”
George Eliot buch Adam Bede
Quelle: Adam Bede (1859)
Kontext: Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds...
“Don't judge a book by its cover”
George Eliot buch The Mill on the Floss
Quelle: The Mill on the Floss
“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
George Eliot buch Middlemarch
Quelle: Middlemarch
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
George Eliot buch Middlemarch
Quelle: Middlemarch (1871)
“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”
George Eliot buch Middlemarch
Quelle: Middlemarch
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.”
George Eliot buch Middlemarch
Quelle: Middlemarch
“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.”
George Eliot buch The Mill on the Floss
Quelle: The Mill on the Floss
“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”
George Eliot buch The Mill on the Floss
Quelle: The Mill on the Floss
“For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”
George Eliot buch Middlemarch
Quelle: Middlemarch
George Eliot buch Middlemarch
Quelle: 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.”
George Eliot buch The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”
George Eliot buch Middlemarch
Quelle: Middlemarch
“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”
George Eliot buch Silas Marner
Quelle: Silas Marner
