George Eliot frasi celebri
“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.
George Eliot libro Middlemarch
Middlemarch
George Eliot libro Middlemarch
Middlemarch
George Eliot libro Middlemarch
Middlemarch
George Eliot libro Middlemarch
Middlemarch
George Eliot libro Middlemarch
Middlemarch
George Eliot libro Silas Marner
cap. 10, p. 91
Silas Marner
George Eliot libro Silas Marner
cap. 3, pp. 37–38
Silas Marner
George Eliot: Frasi in inglese
George Eliot libro Il mulino sulla Floss
Origine: The Mill on the Floss (1860)
George Eliot libro Il mulino sulla Floss
Origine: The Mill on the Floss (1860)
“Blameless people are always the most exasperating.”
George Eliot libro Middlemarch
Origine: Middlemarch
“I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.”
George Eliot libro Daniel Deronda
Origine: Daniel Deronda
George Eliot libro Middlemarch
Daniel Deronda (1876)
Origine: Middlemarch
“A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.”
George Eliot libro Middlemarch
Origine: 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 libro Middlemarch
Origine: Middlemarch
George Eliot libro Il mulino sulla Floss
Origine: The Mill on the Floss
“Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.”
George Eliot libro Middlemarch
Origine: Middlemarch (1871)
Contesto: 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 libro Middlemarch
Origine: Middlemarch (1871)
“Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.”
George Eliot libro Il mulino sulla Floss
Origine: The Mill on the Floss
“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand - …”
George Eliot libro Silas Marner
Origine: 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 libro Middlemarch
Origine: Middlemarch
“If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?”
George Eliot libro Middlemarch
Origine: Middlemarch
George Eliot libro Il mulino sulla Floss
Origine: The Mill on the Floss
