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Romola QUOTES

Romola QUOTES

1 " His faith wavered, but not his speech: it is the lot of every man who has to speak for the satisfaction of the crowd, that he must often speak in virtue of yesterday's faith, hoping it will come back to-morrow. "

― George Eliot , Romola

2 " All minds, except such as are delivered from doubt by dulness of sensibility, must be subject to this recurring conflict where the many-twisted conditions of life have forbidden the fulfilment of a bond. For in strictness there is no replacing of relations: the presence of the new does not nullify the failure and breach of the old. Life has lost its perfection: it has been maimed; and until the wounds are quite scarred, conscience continually casts backward, doubting glances. "

― George Eliot , Romola

3 " Romola had had contact with no mind that could stir the larger possibilities of her nature; they lay folded and crushed like embryonic wings, making no element in her consciousness beyond an occasional vague uneasiness. "

― George Eliot , Romola

4 " It is but once that we can know our worst sorrows. "

― George Eliot , Romola

5 " More than three centuries and a half ago, in the mid spring-time of 1492, we are sure that the angel of the dawn, as he travelled with broad slow wing from the Levant to the Pillars of Hercules, and from the summits of the Caucasus across all the snowy Alpine ridges to the dark nakedness of the Western isles, saw nearly the same outline of firm land and unstable sea "

― George Eliot , Romola

6 " Ah, Iddio non paga il Sabatol (‘God does not pay on a Saturday’)—the wages of men’s sins often linger in their payment, and I myself saw much established wickedness of long-standing prosperity. "

― George Eliot , Romola

7 " The eager theorizing of ages is compressed, as in a seed, in the want of a single mind. "

― George Eliot , Romola

8 " We prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by the reiterated choice of good or evil which gradually determines character. "

― George Eliot , Romola

9 " They were too hopelessly alienated in their inner life ever to have that contest which is an effort towards agreement. "

― George Eliot , Romola