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
consequence
Consequences are unpitying.
men life-and-death likes
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.
glasses magnifying-glass magnifying
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
sometimes rage nonsense
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
keys mystery wonder
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
money luxury giving
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
friendship agreement delight
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
inspirational education wisdom
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
heart squirrels history
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
hope learning sadness
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
sports winning fearless
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
hope pain live-life
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
lying responsibility tolerance
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
happiness inspiring perseverance
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.