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
hurt people made
Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.
hilarious mistake female
And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
girl falling-in-love love-you
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.
men knowing soul
The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
lying men should-have
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
night voice funeral
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
hiking hatred ladders
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
husband women home
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
mistake giving alive
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
happiness women heart
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
heartbreak judging feelings
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
happiness self preparation
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
life literature determined
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
god memories son
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.