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
father alphabet ends
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
feelings feeling-lost littles
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
past stronger ancestry
Breed is stronger than pasture.
wish literature exclusion
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
relationship happiness freedom
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
women monsters literature
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
life death kings
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
girl men imagination
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
literature parting
In every parting there is an image of death.
expression literature indifference
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
life spiritual excellence
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
funny women humor
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
ego doe belief
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
strength strong women
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.