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
thinking understanding experience
I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.
men duty
Man cannot choose his duties.
trying distrust difficult
It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
fall love-is feet
The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.
heart men idols
Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.
dog men differences
The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.
squirrels air delicacy
A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.
culture opinion obstacles
The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.
enemy harder niceties
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
wine vinegar sun
Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.
leadership command
He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.
fool idiot happens
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
belief
Better a false belief than no belief at all.
sky childhood sorrow
My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.