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
feelings feeling-lost littles
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
littles modern states
It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.
littles appearance
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
selfishness littles poor
Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.
children fate littles
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
memories nests littles
I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.
memories water littles
To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.
time years littles
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops
littles facts originality
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
family children littles
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
men order littles
but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.
men littles new-roads
If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
names people littles
We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
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We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.