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
expectations remember born
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
men order littles
but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.
drama character creating
There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.
middlemarch seeing
After all, the true seeing is within.
ambition long miracle
But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!
cute idiot wit
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
prayer powerful feelings
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.
different metaphor results
What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
feelings duty knows
You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
struggle perception adjusting
She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.
sarcastic destiny hands
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
peace morning pain
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
memories mood temper
The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
thinking people neighbor
People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.