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
kindness ignorant would-be
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
women stupid ems
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
jealousy passion fire
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
life literature compunction
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
opportunity politics vices
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
inspirational life friendship
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
lonely loneliness being-alone
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
friends thinking fiber
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
triumph human-nature creeds
The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.
men assets
Education is an asset no man can take away.
years expectations vain
Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.
son two hundred
Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.
heaven world
So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.
art children ocean
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.