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."
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George Eliot buch The Mill on the Floss
Quelle: The Mill on the Floss (1860)
George Eliot buch The Mill on the Floss
Quelle: The Mill on the Floss (1860)
“Blameless people are always the most exasperating.”
George Eliot buch Middlemarch
Quelle: Middlemarch
“I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.”
George Eliot buch Daniel Deronda
Quelle: Daniel Deronda
George Eliot buch Middlemarch
Daniel Deronda (1876)
Quelle: Middlemarch
“A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.”
George Eliot buch Middlemarch
Quelle: Middlemarch
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 563
“Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”
George Eliot buch Middlemarch
Quelle: Middlemarch
“Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.”
George Eliot buch Middlemarch
Quelle: Middlemarch (1871)
Kontext: Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. Who can quit young lives after being long in company with them, and not desire to know what befell them in their after-years? For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be kept, and an ardent outset may be followed by declension; latent powers may find their long-waited opportunity; a past error may urge a grand retrieval.
George Eliot buch Middlemarch
Quelle: Middlemarch (1871)
“Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.”
George Eliot buch The Mill on the Floss
Quelle: The Mill on the Floss
“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand - …”
George Eliot buch Silas Marner
Quelle: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 18 (at page 163)
“Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.”
George Eliot buch Middlemarch
Quelle: Middlemarch
“If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?”
George Eliot buch Middlemarch
Quelle: Middlemarch
