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
love life valentines-day
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
memories butterfly expectations
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
friendship cute faith
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
stars night light
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light , never put out the stars . It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness .
book writing giving
I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
teacher responsibility power
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
justice kingdoms facts
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
people bravery might
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
self objectivity vision
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
trouble worst ifs
If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.
fall dark men
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.
childhood earth nostalgia
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
pain sadness feelings
It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.
love inspirational friendship
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.