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
self simplicity consciousness
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
funny happy-birthday time
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
men perception mind
Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.
men looks ostracism
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
music thinking should-have
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
hurt disappointment pride
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.
success sports new-year
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
art sacred pure
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
music effort goes-on
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
forgiveness too-much judgment
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
hands soul feelings
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.
inspirational life inspiring
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
inspirational sweet men
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
wisdom disappointment memorable
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.