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
girl men imagination
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
men assets
Education is an asset no man can take away.
art men fellow-man
Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.
believe men make-believe
Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.
distance men squares
... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.
religious pride men
... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.
mean men imagination
A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.
children men growth
... men and women are but children of a larger growth ...
men ideas ifs
If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.
book reading men
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
children lying men
All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.
men taste dresses
Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.
men world suits
You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.
men age singles
In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.