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
children men earth
A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.
hate people dear
I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.
grief silence suffering
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
character cutting body
Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
maggie vicissitudes young
But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
average feelings rising
It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.
thinking truth-is hardest
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
mean feet said
What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.
book haste-makes-waste judging
Don't judge a book by its cover
ambition different mastery
I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
change nature believe
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
strong self temptation
It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
mistake men animal
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
men infatuation consequence
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.