George Eliot frasi celebri
“Un’intelligenza perfettamente sana è sempre un po’ spaesata in questo pazzo mondo.”
The Mill on the Floss
“Gli animali sono amici così piacevoli: non fanno domande, non criticano.”
Origine: Da Scenes Of Clerical Life, VII
Origine: Citato in Dizionario delle citazioni, a cura di Italo Sordi, BUR, 1992. ISBN 14603-X
“Affidiamo la gente alla misericordia di Dio, ma noi non ne dimostriamo alcuna.”
Origine: [pagina? edizione?]
“Dio è inconcepibile, l'immortalità incredibile, ma il dovere è perentorio e assoluto.”
Origine: Da La donna del tenente francese.
George Eliot Frasi e Citazioni
“In ogni separazione c'è un'immagine della morte.”
Origine: Da Scenes Of Clerical Life, X; citato in Dizionario delle citazioni, a cura di Ettore Barelli e Sergio Pennacchietti, BUR, 2013.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch
Middlemarch
Middlemarch
Middlemarch
cap. 10, p. 91
Silas Marner
cap. 3, pp. 37–38
Silas Marner
George Eliot: Frasi in inglese
“I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.”
Origine: The Mill on the Floss
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds …”
Origine: Adam Bede (1859)
Contesto: Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds...
“Don't judge a book by its cover”
Origine: The Mill on the Floss
“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
Origine: Middlemarch
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
Origine: Middlemarch (1871)
“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”
Origine: Middlemarch
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.”
Origine: Middlemarch
“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.”
Origine: The Mill on the Floss
“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”
Origine: The Mill on the Floss
“For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”
Origine: Middlemarch
Origine: 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.”
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”
Origine: Middlemarch
“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”
Origine: Silas Marner