George Eliot
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 November 1819
heaven mind movement
How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?
thinking hardship pretending
I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.
love mystery divine
Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
art light mind
... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.
art kind fine
Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation ...
dinner furniture world
... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.
thinking guilt grit
Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.
skepticism standstill
... scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill ...
rebellion defiance one-thing
... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
suffering morality motive
... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.
selfish gentleman vices
... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.
majority argument jokes
... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.
ambition vision ease
... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.
distance men squares
... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.