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
believe race years
One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in the science, and I hope to disprove Young's theory that "as soon as we have found the key of life it opes the gates of death." Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest. What a miserable augury for the progress of the race and the destination of the individual if the more matured and enlightened state is the less happy one!
mother children teaching
Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.
errors form humans
Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.
want
I not only want to be loved, I want to be told that I'm loved.
too-late never-too-late late
It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
coarse subtle impression
Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
mind well-known conviction
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
successful goal be-who-you-are
It is never too late to be who you want to be.
art men fellow-man
Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.
stars persistence night
O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.
character needs theory
If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.
artist novelists benefits
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.
easy difficult motive
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.
believe men make-believe
Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.