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
“A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.”
Origine: Middlemarch
“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”
First lines.
Origine: Middlemarch (1871)
“She hates everything that is not what she longs for.”
Origine: Adam Bede
“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust.”
Variante: What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
Origine: Middlemarch (1871)
“Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.”
Origine: Middlemarch
“A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.”
Origine: Silas Marner
“Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say”
Origine: Middlemarch
“What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!”
Origine: The Mill on the Floss
“Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.”
Origine: Adam Bede
Letter to Georgiana Burne-Jones, wife of the artist Edward Burne-Jones (1875)
“It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.”
Origine: Middlemarch
“All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.”
Origine: Daniel Deronda
“Howiver, I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.”
Chapter 53 http://books.google.com/books?id=0OU8AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Howiver+I'm+not+deny+in+the+women+are+foolish+God+Almighty+made+em+to+match+the+men%22&pg=PA530#v=onepage
Adam Bede (1859)
Start of Chapter 29 (at page 237)
Felix Holt, the Radical (1866)
“Knightly love is blent with reverence
As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.”
Book 1
The Spanish Gypsy (1868)
“But what a voice! It was like the voice of a soul that had once lived in an Aeolian harp.”
Middlemarch (1871)
Origine: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 10 (at page 77-78)