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
kindness self rivalry
He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.
perfect imperfection inward
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
produce aim wanted
What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
men ideas ifs
If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.
human-experience paradoxical humans
Human experience is usually paradoxical.
enemy wavering belief
Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.
fortitude massive
Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.
may majestic emotion
Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.
judging desire paradise
But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.
animal thinking may
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.
brother
Brothers are so unpleasant.
stupid believe towns
... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.
book reading men
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
baptism conscious consecration
There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.