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Quotes from Adam Bede — George Eliot

1819–1880 England

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31 quotes

Howiver, I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Adam Bede (1859)

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

Adam Bede (1859)

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Adam Bede (1859)

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Adam Bede (1859)

"There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it."

Adam Bede (1859)

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

Adam Bede (1859)

Her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world.

Adam Bede (1859)

People who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.

Adam Bede (1859)

Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as disease.

Adam Bede (1859)

Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

Adam Bede (1859)

One can say everything best over a meal.

Adam Bede (1859)

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

Adam Bede (1859)

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Adam Bede (1859)

Come in, Adam, and rest; it has been a hard day for thee.

Adam Bede (1859)

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.

Adam Bede (1859)

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

Adam Bede (1859)

You told me the truth when you said to me once, "There's a sort of wrong that can never be made up for".

Adam Bede (1859)

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before — consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.

Adam Bede (1859)

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop.

Adam Bede (1859)

There's no pleasure i' living if you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.

Adam Bede (1859)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Eliot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.