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
women winning thinking
To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.
women grace suffering
They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.
lying women royal
A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.
women elements virtue
A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
water cheerful months
The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.
passion men vanity
The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.
vanity noses conceit
Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.
trust men deeds
I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.
believe men brave
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
grief love-is effort
Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.
believe leisure vacuums
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.
people crow suspicion
Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.
horse believe superstitions
A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.
soul opinion contradictory
The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.