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
growing revelations
Our growing thought Makes growing revelation.
what-if deeds ifs
What if my words Were meant for deeds.
light broken darkness
Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.
prayer wish ends
Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.
inns should
Where you have friends you should not go to inns.
witty dull deeper
Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?
stars tree golden
The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.
fate arrows breasts
Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.
men mad monsters
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
violin kind fame
Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
hero years land
The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.
hair pitiful fairs
When you see fair hair Be pitiful.
eye resolve betray
A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.
summer winter wind
Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.