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
running literature hobbies
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
ideas literature trouble
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
love vanity literature
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
wings our-words literature
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
thinking literature murder
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
nature literature privacy
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
truth literature easy
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
wish literature exclusion
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
women monsters literature
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
literature parting
In every parting there is an image of death.
expression literature indifference
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
life literature compunction
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
spiritual literature amusing
bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.
literature too-much injury
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.