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 goodbye lonely
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
crop good last
It's but little good you'll do, a watering the last year's crop
age reason goodness
When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.
women men be-good
I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
giving good-woman merit
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.
firsts goodness reverence
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.
thinking looks looking-good
If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
inspirational life good-intentions
Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.
good-luck boys opportunity
Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.
good-luck men unlucky
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
life good-life affection
Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.
life good-life
But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?
struggle perfectly-good light
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
dependent faithfully good growing half hidden ill lived might number partly rest
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.