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
pain anger men
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
anger leaving tears
Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.
mother love-is animal
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.
husband men class
Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order,
writing genius
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
hero circles hell
There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.
wise lying reflection
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.
love character men
But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.
integrity mind elements
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.
memories disappointment exaggeration-is
There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.
work lasts bits
A good solid bit of work lasts.
women sorrow half
Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.
sorrow trying failing
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
love heart needs
It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.