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
city funeral gathered hemisphere images moving past seems strange trophies visible
Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
past stronger ancestry
Breed is stronger than pasture.
past joy sorrow
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
past confession form
... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.
past self sorrow
It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.
book past mirrors
With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.
nature eye past
Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.
time memories past
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
future past ties
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
past reality men
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
memories past men
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
moving past rome
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
past would-be daylight
Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.
lying past should-have
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.