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
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.
two-sides well-known wells
It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.
grief struggle fall
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
mean giving gone
Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone.
men littles new-roads
If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
protest conclusion absolutes
I protest against any absolute conclusion.
mistake atheism form
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
our-world discovery facts
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
girl men thinking
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
order chaos harmony
Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
ignorance giving range
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
people blameless
Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
opinion cynicism fellows
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.