All GEORGE ELIOT Quotes about “Animals”

“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”
“Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?”
“Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.”
“But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.”
“Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.”
“Animals are such agreeable friends.”
“The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.”
“The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.”
“The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses.”
“The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.”
“When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.”

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