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
successful goal too-late
It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.
people anxiety feelings
He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...
men reverence
There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.
beautiful truth giving
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
beautiful distance perspective
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!
opportunity thinking long
It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.
mother father men
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.
nature fall autumn
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
opportunity men use
What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?
blessing sake obedience
It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.
philosophy women facts
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
anticipation joyful
Go forward with joyful confidence.
knack anticipation estates
I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate...
stupid book stuff
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.