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
imperfection painting insight
... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.
money differences errors
Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.
thinking mad people
What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.
commitment waiting quality
Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.
art sky people
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
sympathy depressing knowledge
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
prayer reflection roots
Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?
marriage mind religion
When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.
religious pride men
... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.
fire shapes enthusiasm
There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.
wisdom knowledge judging
To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.
rome world wanted
In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
wise real ems
...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.
feelings his-love speak
We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.