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
mom mother children
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
lying humility hands
We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.
positive-thinking thinking might
Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
fear acceptance self
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
children hero believe
Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
relationship distance farewell
That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.
love peace sorrow
Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.
life good-life affection
Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.
life strong love-is
Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.
life good-life
But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?
life sea errands
Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.
hope growth precarious
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
heartbreak believe men
No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.
death funeral looks
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.