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
pregnancy trying childbirth
I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
animal feet pet-loss
Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?
people want feels
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
rivers waiting feelings
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
dog wall imagination
Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.
travel memories imagination
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.
dark voice rivers
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice...
inspirational men mind
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
love morning book
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.
past reality men
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
happiness smile kindness
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
gratitude roots
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.
jewels color jewelry
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
exercise animal humanity
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.