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?
may majestic emotion
Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.
animal thinking may
When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.
may done better-yourself
There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.
lying may speak
Particular lies may speak a general truth.
disappointment may vexation
The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.
slavery may young
Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.
eggs silence may
Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
may stories reputation
Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.
stars may ass
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
ignorance may pills
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
mind may invisible
Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.
children deeds may
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
marriage order may
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.