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
blow giving negativity
The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.
opportunity air satisfaction
What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.
color scent strange
It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.
new-experiences childhood lapses
All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.
blame reviews findings
How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.
archer perfect deer
Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.
beauty sweet eye
What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?
deeds action fetters
Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.
shoes boots trouble
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.
thinking dinner pudding
If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.
pain grief baptism
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.
men decision age
How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him. . . .
doors tools use
When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.
clever stupidity pigeons
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.