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
fairly female fond male might mistakes mortals raise wonder
Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.
running literature hobbies
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
ideas literature trouble
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
inspirational discipline genius
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
love heart caring
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
philosophy mean experience
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
love vanity literature
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
truth flavour rough
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
wings our-words literature
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
business achievement done
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
thinking literature murder
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
strong circumstances remains
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
nature literature privacy
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
writing social conviction
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.