George Eliot
British novelist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, British novelist, Daniel Deronda, 1876
Posted on October 8, 1998 at 2:09 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
For all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
—George Eliot, British novelist
Posted on July 8, 1998 at 2:37 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.
—George Eliot, British novelist, Middlemarch, 1871
Posted on January 15, 2003 at 10:18 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Might, could, would—they are contemptible auxiliaries.
—George Eliot, British novelist, Middlemarch, 1872
Posted on June 18, 2003 at 8:52 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: — in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
—George Eliot, British novelist, Daniel Deronda
Posted on April 17, 2003 at 2:23 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid: wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.
—George Eliot, British novelist, Felix Holt, 1866
Posted on December 24, 1998 at 8:46 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.
—George Eliot, British novelist, The Mill on the Floss
Posted on February 20, 2001 at 11:53 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
—George Eliot, British novelist, Felix Holt, The Radical
Posted on May 21, 2002 at 2:48 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
—George Eliot, British novelist, The Spanish Gypsy
Posted on January 19, 2002 at 3:02 PM
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