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
handsome may lovable
But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?
sympathy hurt hands
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.
hands letters kind
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
hands glasses bird
There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.
hands punishment pity
Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?
girl stones handsome
When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.
taken cutting hands
When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.
men hands crowds
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
men hands breathing
Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.
lying humility hands
We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.
hands soul feelings
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.
god religious hands
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
men hands skills
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
sarcastic destiny hands
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.