Eliot Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eliot George Eliot Names Wish
I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before. — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“domestic competence utterly alien to her, a kind of miracle. He is saying, “I am in love with George Eliot! My god! Middlemarch! That… — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
I'm sure that I'd be able to find a lot to disagree on with Eliot Engel. — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
“For once I myself saw with my own eyes the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a cage, and when the boys said to her,… — Mark S. Smith Copy Share Image
T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close friend ever… — Penelope Mitchell Copy Share Image
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Modern poets like Frost still want to make 'deep' statements; but they are also more sceptical of such high-sounding generalities than many of their… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end.… — Matt Bors Copy Share Image
“Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without… — Bill N. Lacy Copy Share Image
Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole… — T.S. Mathews Copy Share Image
Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they shared not… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Every poet gets to choose what kind of community he or she serves with the poems, and it's true that there is a community… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“Musicians, like golfers, have to put their minds in the right place – trusting, confident, enjoying the pressure, being in present. And so forth.… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
