George Eliot: Frases em inglês
Frases em inglês.“A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.”
George Eliot livro Middlemarch
Fonte: Middlemarch
“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”
George Eliot livro Middlemarch
First lines.
Fonte: Middlemarch (1871)
“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust.”
George Eliot livro Middlemarch
Variante: What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
Fonte: Middlemarch (1871)
“Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.”
George Eliot livro Middlemarch
Fonte: Middlemarch
“A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.”
George Eliot livro Silas Marner
Fonte: Silas Marner
“Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say”
George Eliot livro Middlemarch
Fonte: Middlemarch
“What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!”
George Eliot livro The Mill on the Floss
Fonte: The Mill on the Floss
“Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.”
George Eliot livro Adam Bede
Fonte: Adam Bede
George Eliot livro Middlemarch
Fonte: Middlemarch
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.”
George Eliot livro Middlemarch
Fonte: Middlemarch
George Eliot livro Silas Marner
Fonte: Silas Marner
George Eliot livro Daniel Deronda
Book 3, Ch. 24
Fonte: Daniel Deronda (1876)
“All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.”
George Eliot livro Daniel Deronda
Fonte: Daniel Deronda