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
facts latter former
The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.
stress bows intensity
The bow always strung ... will not do.
men intelligence intellectual
It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
hands glasses bird
There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.
echoes soul immortality
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
strong philosophy roots
How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.
home hypocrisy abuse
It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.
men race imagination
There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs.
history knows repeats
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.
hate hatred form
The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.
happiness years how-to-be-happy
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
regret grief affection
O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.
safe danger toms
Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger.
genius fetters
Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters ...