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 people corn
The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.
real grief thinking
I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.
god humble soul
I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.
giving good-woman merit
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.
believe storm half
Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.
giving-up fate thinking
Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.
fate passing-away today
Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!
men reputation fame
That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.
spring listening bud
Fairy folk a-listening Hear the seed sprout in the spring, And for music to their dance Hear the hedgerows wake from trance, Sap that trembles into buds Sending little rhythmic floods Of fairy sound in fairy ears. Thus all beauty that appears Has birth as sound to finer sense And lighter-clad intelligence.
failure matter golden
No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.
slavery may young
Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.
dog sorry dumb
Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.
men escaping docks
To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.
men vegetables desire
Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.