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
pride soul body
The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
wells
Things are achieved when they are well begun.
motherhood heat force
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.
memories old-friends common
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
luck matter ill
Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days.
determination rocks scales
Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
good-luck boys opportunity
Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.
children men done
I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
flower thinking knows
I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.
honesty people cost
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
heaven public-opinion belief
I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.
cat wonder dairy
I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.
marriage wedding sea
Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.
hope expectations shadow
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.