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
conceited thinking people
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
tired people way
It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.
witty pride vanity
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
father son giving
It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.
new-beginnings men finding-yourself
One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.
blood nerves subtle
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.
ignorance common hours
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
struggle perfectly-good light
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
thinking dislike
I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.
education fathers-day teaching
Those who trust us educate us.
music middlemarch interrupted
It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.
missing dresses relief
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
love life valentines-day
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
order play quality
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.