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
passion outlets
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
future past ties
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
failure air people
There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.
language slang
correct English is the slang of prigs ...
use pockets filling
It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
religious taken fate
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
life air games
Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.
children deeds may
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
gout rich accepting
..the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families...
strong argument formidable
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
life long lessons
I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.
men opportunity use
What is opportunity to a man who can't use it.
wise men empty
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
art men doe
If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.