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
“Blameless people are always the most exasperating.”
Origine: Middlemarch
“I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.”
Origine: Daniel Deronda
“A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.”
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.”
Origine: Middlemarch
“Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.”
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.
“Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.”
Origine: The Mill on the Floss
“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand - …”
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.”
Origine: Middlemarch
“If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?”
Origine: Middlemarch