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
sympathy marriage relation
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
ignorance literature hours
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
travel integrity journey
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
love evil effort
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
dog live-life animal
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
inspirational motivational work
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
wisdom simple compassion
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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.