George Eliot on Art
Browse 6 quotations attributed to George Eliot, catalogued under art, with dates where available.
This page displays 6 quotations attributed to George Eliot and filed under "art" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to George Eliot, entry #18697: "when a man had deserved his good luck, it was the part of his neighbours to wish him joy."
Attributed to George Eliot, entry #190700: "If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally."
6 Quotes by George Eliot on Art
"when a man had deserved his good luck, it was the part of his neighbours to wish him joy."
"If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally."
"Articles on Eliot and Middle March at the University of Virginia"
"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."
"Articles on Eliot at The Victorian Web"
"Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it really belongs. It is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbour is good for nothing, than to enter into all the circumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion."