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
change life-is influence
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
motivational reality might
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
ideas play acting
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
littles facts originality
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
friendship best-friend true-friend
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
time memories past
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
spring first-love boys
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.
beauty eggs hopeful
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
character self mind
For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?
stars home men
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from the earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead.
inspirational motivational sympathy
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
inspirational rain flower
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
friendship happiness smile
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
love life valentines-day
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.