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
punishment yoke
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
morning stars moon
All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!
rivers feet choices
How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.
travel shapes fool
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure
ideas doubt moments
The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.
fear fearless danger
We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
faults boots blame
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
sweet voice giving
What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?
girl believe weather
A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?
loyalty voice echoes
Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
sky earth dew
The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.
deception infidelity deceit
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
memories childhood sorrow
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
beauty language speak
Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.