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
believe men inward
Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?
memories eye men
Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.
children men simple
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness...
love men mutual
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
men hands skills
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
pain men justice
So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.
husband men said
You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.
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.
girl men thinking
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
men compassion feelings
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.
men resolution bachelors
When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.
men knowing soul
The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
lying men should-have
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?